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Newspaper Page Text4 A SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 193 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON "Ivaryona ID Boutnarn oraio a.. a. TK Mall THhnna FiiETlhd I DaUy aeap fiturdM by MEDFUHU rwiUlU 13 North Fir St, Ph. W-yi. ROBERT W BUHL, Miter HERB OBEV Advertising Monaiat Dii n T f .ATM AM. Bu Mir 1C fc ALLEN JR, Mnr tdilor EARL B ADAMS. CUT KIMJ RICHARD JEWETT, Sportt M tor OLIVE STARCHEH Woman'! Edltoj DALE ER1CK3QN, Clrculatjgn Mft An Indapandant Nawapawi Ifttarad aecond elaas matter at Medford, oraaon under uci oi March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally ana Sunday 1 yaar $18 80 Dally ind Sunday- mos 10.00 Dally nd Sunday 3 S OU Sunday Only-One yaar 5 00 Sinjle Copy (Mailed) 30a By Carrier And Motor Rout. llly and Sunday 1 year 3.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1JJ Sunday Only I mo. soe Carrier and Vendor! i Copy loo fffstimpjreityMad'firrd Olllelal Paper et Jamtoit Coonty United Preu International full Uas4 Wire , a, i Tatr.hntn Nawiiriettiree "Member ofaT)dit bureau- AdVartlalne; R'prMentatlva: NEI.SOtf ROBERTS i ASSOC! atvo n, !. in Mw Vork. Cnl- cao. Detroit, San Franclico. Lot Anffeiei. oeaiiia, -- Denver. Km NIWS'AHt ruiiiiHin AilOCIATIOH UTIONAI IDITOIIAl Member California Newipaper Publlihera AaloclaUon Righto' Time Medford and Jackson County Hljtory from tno files of Tht Mall Trlbuno 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. Id YEARS AGO Nov. 17. 1953 (Tuesday) Russell W. Deforest, 33, asso ciated with the Medford law firm of Robert, Kellington and Branchfield, has been unani mously named municipal judge. Ashland Mayor Phil Stansbury and Councilman Mark Hamaker announced their resignations. 21) YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1943 (Wednesday) Ed Hanley, 80, pioneer of Southern Oregon, dies in Seattle after brief illness. John Webber, Medford High School student, speaks before Medford Lions Club on newly formed "Teen-Age" Club. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1933 (Friday) Medford Gleemen schedule first concert of season; plans lor event told by Gleeman Pre mem k. w. frame. Newly elected Medford Com munily Chest officers include Eugene Thorndike. president: Mrs. Leonard Carpenter, vice president; and Miss Ruth Meu sel, secretary. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1923 (Saturday) Porter J. Neff and Col. W. H, Paine take leading part In Amer lean Education week program at Aieaiora High school. Charles A. King named Scout master for local Boy Scout troop as pians announced lor forma tion of seven troops in city. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1913 (Monday) John McGraw's New York Giants defeat Chicago White Sox, 3 to 0, on Medford field in downpour of rain; Tris Speaker, Hal Chase and Sam Crawford get hits for losers. Judge 0. H. Gillmore elected president of newly formed Rogue mver commercial uuo. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct It superior! savan or tight It ncellent) live or an It and. On Offensive Words Words are funny things. Often, they can take on an opprobrious and emotional character all their own. There was a time when, if you called an Irish man a "mick," you had a fight on your hands. Since the Irish have won a secure place in the American melting pot, however, the nickname is no longer considered an insult; rather it is an occasion for a laugh. The same is tine of "paddy" applied to a person of Welsh descent. The word "frog," as applied to a Frenchman, is almost never heard any more, and when it is, it is used jokingly. MOT so with other words. "Kike," applied to a Jew, still is offensive. Perhaps, as prejudices diminish and enlightenment spreads, the time will come when it, too, can be used without stirring resentment. The word "nitreer" is similarly offensive to Negroes. It has the same derogatory, patronizing and demeaning connotations that other appela tions have had, but gradually have lost. With the situation as it is today, we do not foresee the time when it will lose these connota tions, as far as the Negro is concerned. Sadly, members of that race nave, by and large, far to go before general acceptance and respect will remove the opprobrious meanings implicit in the word. COMES now the question of how far we should go in limiting the use of words which are offensive, and understandably so, to minority groups. Should they be eliminated entirely from 1.11 t i- 1.. A- At-- - t- 1 puonc prints, in an eiiurx to spare me sensiDiiues of those to whom they are applied? The question arose recently when a wash ngton state high school teacher who was coach ing and directing a play refused to change the word "nigger" to something less offensive. It was in the play, she maintained, and was part of it. To change the word would change the play, and she'd be no party to such editing. Some of Mark Twain's books, notably "Huck Finn," have been criticized on similar grounds. a XHO is right? Those who take offense at the " use of such words? Or those who say that they are, after all, a part of the language, and that to change or eliminate them would damage the integrity of a book or playf Well, this is one of those situations where both sides of the argument are right. Negroes are right to resent derogatory names. But those who defend the language, and the words which are inarguably a part of it, are right too. ' 1 hose who have any respect for the sensibili ties of others, particularly those of minority races who are struggling for status and acceptance, will of course take everv precaution not to offend needlessly or gratuitously. But let us hope the day may come when there are no second class citizens any more, and any reference to one's race, religion, origin or ancestors may be made. and received, in good grace. E.A. Burn Rehabilitation Within the boundaries of the Rorrue River National Forest there are more than 50,000 acres of potentially productive forest land which now stand idle, grown over to brush which effectively prevents the growth of new trees. The Forest Service, within limitations of time and funds, has under way a project to rehabili tate these lands, and make them productive. in the Applegate district alone, some 18,000 acres are in brush. In the Butte Falls district, the huge Cat Hill burn, where some 12,000 acres were burned in 1910, still has some 4,100 acres virtually denuded of trees. It was grown over to brash which was so thick and dense that it defied many early attempts at reforestation. 'We Resent Criticism Of Our Leader, And Want It Known That We Lie Firmly Behind Him" ST I FT!. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop () Jftw York Herald Tribune gynittcat COMMUNICATIONS mently denied the existance of a God was fatally shot by a neighbor. In the five hours it took him to die, he constantly Modern Religion To the Editor: People by the thousands attend church and Sunday school on Sunday, but on Easter and Christmas they attend by the millions. Through out the week days Christianity drops below zero, some finding it necessary to return eacn loi- cried out "My God, my God, my God." Tomorrow I'll be going north into the state of Washington. My trip will take me near the rest- lowing Sunday to sponge away , - . , , ,oved ones. the sins of the past week. All ; w?r Cnristian', hope that burns within my heart, I look 1 . 1. Which Is the Tcrpsichorlan 2. With what country do vou associate the name of William E. Gladstone? 3. Mary Queen of Scots was executed for treason in the be lief she was a threat to the throne of whom? 4. Name the two cities that are referred to in Dickens' nov el, "The Tale of Two Cities." S. In what state are the Bad Lands? 6. What single acquisition of land almost doubled the area of the United States? 7. Shenandoah National Park is in which State? 8. The next full moon after the Harvest Moon Is called what? II. In the nursery rhyme, upon what did Little Miss Muffet sit? 10. The agency which stabil Izes the supply of bank credit and money is called what? Answers: 1. Dancing. 1. Great Britain. 3. Queen Elisabeth, London and Paris. 5. South Da kota, t. Louisiana Purchase. Virginia. 8. Hunters' Moon. 9. InlfoL 10. FVrlrral Reserve Svi. tern. I CONSIDERABLE progress has been made on the Cat Hill bum in the last six or seven years. The Forest Service first tried spraying with v.n..u:A:jA r j l iiciuii;iui;, wuu nwie iuck. iney uiea great crushing devices, which simply bounced over the neavy growth.. Finally, usinrr hutre crawler tractors, thev began to make headway. The tractors, equipped wun Drusn Diacies, literally dragged the brush irom me ground, and stacked it in long wind rows, which can be seen in the area ahovs Rntte r alls, on the long range of mountains stretching north from Mt. McLoughlin. About 1,485 acres nave been cleared. Working on the bared soil, fm-r-sl pi's Viavp seeded and planted about 761 of these acres, and tne worn is continuintr. it s honed tn havp. 1.700 acres on the way toward rehabilitation by next July. 'PHIS is not cheap. Clearing costs have varied A from $20 per acre un to $60 and more uer acre on steep and rocky ground. Planting and seeding cost around $22 to $25 per acre. Aerial spraying in some areas, to kill old brush and keep down new brush competing with young trees, will add to the costs. The price tag on the more than 4,000 acres which will ultimately be treated will be nearly $350,000, or some $90 per acre. Is it worth it? You bet. The cost of the work on the 1,700 acres to be competed next year will be, roughly, $153,000. This land is expected to grow an average of 65,000 board feet of lumber per acre. At an estimated $30 per thousand board feet, this would be valued at some $3,315,000. And that's a pretty good return on an invest ment. E.A. THE NEW KNOW-NOTHINGS WASHINGTON In the tedi ous but crucial struggle over the foreign aid bill, the old tradi tion of national-minded bi-partisanship has been saving Presi dent Kennedy's bacon. ' In the preliminary wrestling with the bill in the Senate For eign Relations Committee, the senior members of the majority and the minority, Sens. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Bourke B. Hickcnloopcr of Iowa, acted together as partners. Sen. Hickcnloopcr is not wide ly known (or his reluctance to take a good, hard, partisan whack at the Democrats when ever he sees a chance to do so. He thought that the foreign aid authorization that Sen. Ful bright wanted the committee to approve $4.2 billion was a bit on the high side. But when Ful bright argued that "we've got to give them something to cut, Hickcnloopcr loyally went along. w 4 GAIN, when the leadership belatedly discovered the power of the new surge of know nothingism in the Senate, a has ty strategy meeting to discuss the best blocking tactics was strictly bi-partisan, and was even held in the Republican cloakroom. The Majority and Minority Leaders, Sens. Mike Mansfield of Montana and Ev erett Dirksen of Illinois, joined with Fulbright and Hickenloop er in the decision to make a vol untary preliminary cut of $385 million in the committee total, in order to forestall worse cuts by the new know-nothings. Since then, through the long, squalid, and still unfinished struggle on the Senate floor, Dirksen, Hickenlooper, and a good many other Republicans have continued to stand four square for national-mindcdncss and bi-partisanship. Meanwhile, the President's bill has been under bitter, per sistent partisan attack by Dem ocratic Senators, with a group of "liberal" Democrats, headed by the ineffable Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon leading the at tackers. Even that famous Re publican conservative, Sen. Bar ry Goldwater of Arizona, had been kinder to the foreign oid program than the new Demo cratic know-nothings, for he has at least been absent for almost every key vote. fPHE most dramatic vote, though not the closest, was on Morses motion (o gut the bill for good and all, by recom mitting it to the Foreign Rela tions Committee. 1 wcnty-Mghl other Senators voted with the Oregon paragon, and 20 of them were Democrats. Another Morse amendment, to cut the Development Loon Fund by $25 million, carried by a vote of 42 to 40, and 24 of the Morse adherents were Demo crats. Embittered Southerners, like Richard Russell of Georgia and Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, have of course followed Morse, gladly yielding him the leader ship on this occasion. Morses deputy commander in the attack has been the old New Dealer from Alaska, Sen. Ernest Gruening. So-called lib erals who have joined Morse are Frank Church of Idaho. Al bert Gore of Tennessee, the for mer Secretary of Health, Edu cation and Welfare in the Ken nedy cabinet, Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, Stuart Symington of Missouri, and Stephen Young of Ohio, plus Henry Jackson of Washington and William Fro mire of Wisconsin on tne tuno cut. Besides trying to gut the for eign aid bill in every other way, the new know-nothings have put forward an astonishing number of back-seat driving amend ments. "Some people," Sen. Hickenlooper has said grimly, "want to turn the U. S. Senate into another Committee on the Conduct of the War, which help ed the South more than Robert E. Lee." THE result, beyond much doubt, would be a half-crippled foreign aid program. The Alliance for Progress, for in stance, will be lucky to get $525 million apparently because Sen. Morse and his friends are reluctant to allow the United States to spend as much on the prevention of communism in Latin America as the Commun ist bloc is now spending for the sole purpose of propping up Fi del Castro in Cuba. If the effort in Vict Nam is not weakened, all other military aid programs win nave 10 ue cut drastically. Thus old and triA aiiipc which cannot other wise afford their present levels of defense, like Turkey, Greece, Nationalist China, and South Korea, will be hit where it hurts mnsl nnoarentlv because Bens. Symington and Ribicoff think it is a bad bargin to add this strength to our side at one-tenth the cost of an equal number of American troops, pinnllv devcloDirtont loans which offer the best hope of tu rn nrnamss and are also to be repaid in the end, will be cut to the point of grave damage to American foreign policy. In short, the national interest is under heavy attack. It would be more comprehensible If the at tack had a partisan motive; but peevishness, alas, is the only mulive now identifiable. of them are fine Christians in church. As the preacher is preaching, the congregation is yawning, and stretching their necks to see if anyone has ar rived who has a better story to tell than the minister. Should the town gossip arrive, seats squeek, feet shuffle, eyes bright en as each becomes fully awake but not more attentive to the sermon. Religions are born and reli gions die, but the religions most prosperous are founded on the fear of many by the cleverness of a few. More than a few find religion is an unwanted burden, and one they don't care to carry around, just to keep up with Jesus. Our ancestors were wiser men than any of the generation's to day. The world frequently take God's advice rather than the social society of man's own making. Even the women of today have changed for there aren't a handfull who would would rather lose her virture than her reputation. Life has no other discipline to offer but man eat dog. All are suspicious, evil, unfriendly, and it is the source of joy to many. Lost contact wun droin crly love, charity, good will has turned to distorted facts, defeat, unbelief, envy, back biters, and hate. No one can shut his eyes to the fact, nor deny, that this defeat exists to day everywhere and is not faced with an open mind. This is modem religion. E. Dykes, 2412 Spring St., Medford He Alone To the Editor: This true expe rience took place several years ago in Canada. The facts re lated were told me first hand by one who was there. An avowed infidel wno vene- ahead and long for the reunion day with loved ones long parted by death. Lydia B u r n h a m, you say "there is no attraction without something to attract." The man Christ Jesus whom you deny has by His love attracted tlio hearts of millions. Yes, that at tracting love even is in my heart and I hold no III feelings toward you. I say God pity you. No, Lydia, I perhaps haven't read and studied the Bible as much as I should. Your lollor in the Nov. 10 Tribune Instead of deterring me will cause me to dig deeper. Yes. it is a "waste of time" to try and tear away my confi dence in an all wise and loving God. Whether you believe it or not, my friend, if you aro not serving God you are serving Sa tan, whose existence you aiso deny. God is made sad when human beings he created deny His ex istence but Satan exalts over those who deny his existence Lydia, let me sny that wo nre praying for you. I've never met you personally but let me sny this: If we never meet here on earth let's meet on Eternity's shore. God still loves you. His Son died to save you. If you could have witnessed the scene I did not long ago it might have made you think. A friend who tells me he has can cer brought his mother's old Bible out and placed it before me. "I've been busy making a fortune and don't know anything about that book," he said. In my feeble way I pointed that man to Jesus, the lamb of God, who is able to save to the ut termost. And to everyone I say, look to Jesus Christ. He alone can save eternally. Henry Johnson Jr. 2315 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. GREAT IDEAS... ill Lent-i t JLjuM From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler 1863, Vubliihers Newspaper Syadlcati THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT Dear Dr. Adler: Although Pope John XXIII died only a short time ago. hit great feel ing for people and hl tremen dous vision of "unity" Is felt nnlvornlly. A world-wide ef fort towards greater under standing and tolerance be tween prnplrs. churches, na tions, already seems to have brgun. Perhaps the threat of world nurlrar destruction has untie us all more receptive to I'npr John's enlightened mes sage. What Is the background of the movement toward unity among the Christian church es? Is It uniquely present day response to the world wide threat to humanity, or has It existed in previous eras? Louis A. Boucher 254 Lake Ave. Worcester 4, Mass. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The house of representatives! of the Oregon legislature (now assembled in special session) voted approval Thursday of a bill that would put $12 million into the state s general fund in this biennium, (a biennium is two lears) by requiring some employers to remit employees' withholding tax money monthly instead ot quarterly. The bill now goes to the sen' ate. limAT about " In, this withhold ing tax? How does it work? Why will it put $12 milion into the state's general fund? TT'S LIKE this: Both Uncle and the states love their Davroll children both on account of their votes and on account of the TAXES they pay. But they don't trust them IMPLICITLY to pay their taxes wncn tne taxes are due So they require their share of the employees' earnings to be taken out of their paychecks each week and remitted to them by the employer. Under the new law, he wil have to remit as soon as the tax is taken out of the employ ees' checks. So, under the new law, he will no longer be able to use this withheld money as working capital or for any other purpose. If he needs more working cap ital, he will have to borrow it and pay interest on it. Under the proposed new law, the STATE will have the use of this withheld wage money. The state claims that use of this withheld money Willi save it $12 million a year, or $1 mil lion a month. Also proposed, as a means of raising more money, is a 4-cent-a-package cigarette tax bill. The committee majority wants the expected $9 million esti mated to come from the tax dur ing the biennium to go into the basis school fund. .The minority wants the money to go into the general fund without ear-mark ing, so that it can be used for any purpose needed. Dear Mr. Boucher: The eca ncmical movement is the re sponse of the Christian churches today to a problem that has existed for many centuries the separation of Christians into many divergent communities of faith. Almost a thousand years ago the Eastern Church separated from the Church of Rome, and the Eastern and Western spheres of Christendom have been split ever since. Fur thermore, four centuries ago the Western Church was frag mented by the split between Roman Catholicism and Protes tantism. Additional splits have occurred since then within the Roman Church, within the East ern Church, and within the var ious Protestant churches. That there should be such extreme diversity among men who presumably adhere to what is, In essence and origin, the same religious faith, has long been regarded as a shocking scandal. John Calvin, the great 16th-century Protestant reform' er, said: "One of the worst evils of our time is the fact that there are so many different churches" belying "that holy commumion of the members of Chris t,v which all Christians profess. A century later the eminent French Catholic church man. Bossuet, corresponded with the great German Protestant pnl' losopher, Leibnitz, over the question of the reunion of the separated churches. However, the lbtn and lvth centuries were times of religious dispersion and conflict. Substan tail actions toward unity and reconciliation movements then rpHE employer takes the mon- A ey out each week. In the past, he has remitted it only every three months. Meanwhile, don't have to scratch around to he has had the USE of it. I raise your share of it when tax VVHA "It has two advantages. It's always paid up. You pay your snare of it every time you buy package of cigarettes. So, you paying time comes. It gets a lot of feathers from the goose without too much squawking. You pay it a few pennies at a time, and so don't miss the money so much. sponsored by the Protestant churches were ecumenical in spirit and effect. The dynamic arive to spread tne Gospel to non-believers within and with out the Western world tended to blur denominational differences and to emphasize the essential unity among Christians of all communions. Out of this 19th century missionary movement eventually arose the present world Council of Churches the G. H. Q. of the Protestant ecu menical movement. Father George Tavard has ported out that some notable Catholic spoke in an ecu menical spirit in the 19th cen tury. Theirs were isolated voices, the expression of what Tavard calls the Catholic "elite" or "avant - garde," in contrast with the words and deeds 0- the officials of the Pro testant world missionary move ment. However, among these ecu.-.cnical Catholics, was at least one high church ' official, the Bishop of K 1 1 d a r e and Leighlin, who proposed in 1824 that steps be taken to unite the Anglican and Catholic Churches through a frank and open dis cussion of the issues dividing mem. This early and unsuccessful call for a dialogue between the Catholic and non - Catholic churches, was repeated in our own time by the highest Cath olic authority, Pope John XXIII when he convened the Second Vatican Council to dis cuss the question of Christian unity. Official Protestant repre sentatives have attended the council as observers and have been accored serious atten tion, friendship and courtesy, This ecumenical council called to discuss the ecumenical ques tion marks the high point thus far of the effort to establish a dialogue between the Roman Catholic communion and other Christian faiths. Nos substantial agree m e n t has been reached thus far as to what form the desired unity should take or as to what steps should be taken to attain it. The sericus disagreements as to doc trine, sacraments, organization, and authority, which originally gave rise to the divisions among Christians, still remain. How ever, there is a growing agree ment that each authentic Chris- tain group has something of special value to contribute to the whole body of Christian be lief and practice. Ecumenically minded church men strive for a unity based on a solid common core of Chris tain faith, not for a monolithic uniformity which would blot out the various expressions of Christian life and thought. AND- You can always escape it. All you need to do to escape it (perfectly legally) is to QUIT SMOKING. rpHESE questions in conclil- sion: What do the people of Ore gon want as indicated by their voting on October 15? More new taxes to raise more money? Or LESS SPENDING, so that LESS MONEY will have to be raised by taxation? They are interesting questions. You can win a 54-vohime set of the Great Books of the Western World by writing a letter, not to exceed 150 words, Incorporating a ques tion of general interest for Dr. Adler to consider for inclu sion In this column. Each week he will select as first prize winners the writers of the three best letters. He will use ONE of these letters as a basis for a future column and will answer It in terms of the intellectual heritage of the Great Books 443 works by 74 authors, spanning 30 cen turies of thought. Address the letters to Dr. Mortimer J. Ad ler, in care of this newspaper. Memories of War's Horrors Are Needed i x By ERIC SEVAREID (lllilrlhiilrit IflKJ, lly Thr Hall Synillratr, Inc.) (All mints llff rvrit) A peace, like a war, has its own mystique, tone and cycle of behavior. All long wars reach a phase where their original causes arc only dimly remembered, but where the fighting goes on as The second realm is the realm of individual human awareness, where lies the emotional "chem istry of peace." This alters, so it seems to me, with the simple passing of time, almost no mat ter what the additions to or sub tractions from the anatomy, the superstructure of the peace. Time cures all things, includ ing, it would appear, the longing for quiet and the sense of horror at hui.'.an suffering. There is one historian at Oxford, I think who has developed from his study of the war-peace cycle the "15 year theory." If I recall correctly, it is his idea if by habit even though the ' that approximately 15 years af- seeds of the inevitable end arc sprouting. There must be many among us who wonder if we may not have reached such a phase in this present cycle of peace, a period in which men work rou tinely, umnspiredly. at the tasks of peace, forgetting a little more each passing year the horror and the exhaustion that caused the peace. Peace, it may be argued, Is preserved in two d i s t i n c t if life is to be supportable. Per realms. One is the realm of de- i haps this, then, is why books liberate action and arrange-! and movies on the last great ments for peace the alii- war have become readable and ances, the balances of military watchable in the last three or power, the formal machinery I four years. Any number of par lor settlement of disputes. All , ticipants in that war who could "Thanksgiving Isn't evrn here yrt and they're already thinking about our Christmas dollars!" tor each cease-fire, the human soil is ready to receive and nur ture the seeds of the next war. About at this point the general, international effort ceases to be the liquidation of the last war's effects and becomes a very di rect effort at the prevention of the next one. Nature has so made us that the nerve ends cannot remem ber pain and it is by nature's law that sorrow must diminish this involves the "anatomy of peace," and it is to this realm that our attention has almost exclusively been directed not for a long time bear to read about it in detail can do so now. And of course, the new genera- Ition, totally without the mem ories, has grown to the age of political action. On this "chemical" level, two major ingredients have helped to keep the peace memory of the last horror and imaginings of a future horror. Slowly, but steadily, the first element van ishes and we are left with only the second. The result shows it self in the common chatter of the daily news. Men talk more and more blandly of "overkill"; generals issue taunts and boasts, almost offhand, along the auto routes to Berlin; Khru shchev blandly hints that we were close to a world holocaust over the last convoy affair. It is true that while the pres ence of the divided atom gives a dramatic climate to each little crisis, that presence also exer cises a restraining influence on each side. But imagination of the future is not enough; mem ory of the past must somehow be revived and maintained, for we have great need of this sec ond line of defense against war. I hope these are not idle thoughts. If they do not seem so to me, it is because I have just made a private pilgimage to the Ardeatine Caves on the outskirts of Rome. In March of 1944, Italian partisans killed 32 German soldiers in the city. In a ten-to-one reprisal, the Ger mans gathered up 320 Italian It was my fortune to have entered the caves three months later, a few days after they were re-opened. By candles and torches, Italian medical men were piecing together the hu man identities represented by the rat-chewed clothing, the rot ted flesh and the skulls. I thought then that I could never forget the horror of those cata combs of death; yet, with the years, I did forget. The place is a shrine now. Ivy grows over the raw clav outside. Flowers line the tidy path to the entrance, where a lettered slab of stone asks the Italians to hold no bitterness, to seek no revenge, only to see that it shall not happen again. It was All Saonts' Day, and the relatives were thronging the great, half-submerged common vault where the caskets of stone were stretched in rows, reflect ing the light of many candles. But the Italian Armistice Day was also at hand. All those who prayed and cried again at the cave of the martyrs drove back into Rome, passing long lines of tanks and big guns, awaiting the annual military parade. And in the emotions of the moment, the thought persisted: let all Armistice Day parades in all countries be a parade of the. widows and orphans, the blinded and the halt. Let them carry. men and boys, herded them into i not rifles, but the portraits of . U -. A . .. - J tl. 1 .1 1 I . . ' uiwiw ,u,ua, wwuieu uifiu, uu j ineir ucaa, ior noi one was a blew in the entrance. replaceable face.