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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. tveryone la Southern Oiiioi"" Steads The MaU Tribune" PublUhtd DaUy encept Saturday by MEDTORD PRINTING CO. M North rir -Ph1HHlt SSSKSrw (TUHU Mltor HERB GREY lvf,rti;JnlMWJ7 GERALD T LATHAM, Bus. Mar. EBICw ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. Cl Editor HARRY CHIPMAN.T.UJ Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportt Jd tor OLIVB STAR(.'HEKWomn'iEdlto DALE BRICK30N, ClrcuUtionMjI An independent nwwpp Inured as eecond cleis mattei miereo as mono "Tiri, aiedford. Oretoa undtr Act of Marcri 3, tT. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall Xn Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year W.J Dally and Sunday moi. W OO Dally and Sunday 3 moa. I Sunday Only One year W-00 Slnsle Copy (Mailed) 0e y "arnerAnd Mot?r "uta. Ually and Sunday I year J 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. WS '. Sunday Only I mo. oe Carrier and Vendor! -Copj 100 ir-. .. . . . mAtt.4 Oineiai raper oi w " """1; OIHcUl Paper ol Jackson County United Preai international full Uaied Wire 0. p. i. Telephoto Newipleturea 'MEMBER OF AUDI BURXAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlflnf Rpreientitive: NELSON ROSERTS Ai ASSOCI ATES Ol'lcea In New York, Chi eofo. Detroit, San rranciico, Lot Anielee. Seattle. Portland. Denver, NiWiPAPII PUIUIHI1S ASSOCIATION RATION At fOITOtlAl hc6T,3N Memoer California Newipaper PubUihera Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tnt files of This Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. M. M5J (Thursday) i John W. Chllders, principal of Medford's Roosevelt School, Is the author of an article ap pearing in the December Issue of "Safety Education" maga- lne' ' . .. i U. S. Representative Harris Ellsworth from Oregon's Fourth Congressional district has sched uled a speech at Southern Ore gon College next Wednesday. ' M YEARS AGO v.u f (Frtrlav) ! William Reihnart, 71, local businessman and longtime resi dent of southern Oregon, dies at Phoenix. From Arthur Perry's "Ye 4 .An , rnlnmn- "Brides from the Class of '43 did noble yesterday at the Thanksgiving eastings. Tney cooitea we iuwi with their Maws ano ui maws as an advisory commit tee." 3 YEARS AGO Nov. 28. 1933 (Sunday) Eight refrigerated cars con taining 160,000 pounds of Rogue Valley turkeys, shipped to San Francisco for holiday trade. Total of 307 Jackson County men to receive Jobs through lo cal Civil Works Administration program on county and irriga tion district projects. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. l. 1K3 (Monday) Medford's Mayor Earl Gaddls raps Southern Pacific Railroad officials for getting injunction to stop city from constructing Sixth Street crossing across rail road tracks. Judge E. E. Kelly to deliver speech at high school bonfire to arouse enthusiasm for Med-ford-Ashland high school football game. YEARS AGO Nov. M. 1013 (Wednesday) Plot exposed to "blacken name" of County Judge Frank TouVelle by "gang of unscru pulous politicians." Baskets of Thanksgiving food distributed to nine Medford fam ilies by Associated Charities; local observances of the day ex pected to be quiet. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten attract b ruperlei; seven et eieht ti eicellent; five ei all It feed. 1. What name is applied to female warriors? 2. To what does polyandry re fer? 3. In which National Park Is Quadrant Mountain? 4. In what year was the most recent U.S. census of popula tion taken? 5. Where did Napoleon die? 8. Who wore bells on her toes? 7. Who was responsible for popularizing the word Aryan? II. In what country would you most expect to find a geisha? 9. What is the singular form of the word dice? 10. What name is given to a painting done on a wall? Answer) !. Amatons. 2. Plural hatbands. I. Yellowstone. 4, 1M0. I. St. Helena. , The Lady from Banbury. 7. Hitler. I. Ja pan. I. Die. 10. Mural or fresco. 4 A NOVEMBER M, 1W5 The Goals Remain Still stunned, still only half beieving the awful truth, the nation has buried its Presi dent with full and fitting honors, and now turns again to the mundane facts of life continuing. For a time, perhaps, the political overtones of the tragedy will remain muted. But in a na tion as intensely political as ours, the noise and confusion of the pre-campaign months will soon start to resume. The shocked unanimity of a mourning people will erode away before the demands of diverse men and diverse interests. But the nation has learned, and hopefully will remember, that in essentials, it is, it must be, united. It has been a painful lesson. MANY HAVE deplored, as have we, the un mistakable evidence that civilization and an ordered society are but a thin veneer over savagery. But the other side of the coin shows us that, while the veneer may be thin, it is widespread. The almost universal shock and grief and sense of outrage show us that most of us have pro gressed a little way from savagery, long though it may linger in some. The race may have originated in brutality and savagery, but it has gradually grown away from them in its everyday living, and they have come to be abhorrent to our hearts. e e e CHIEFLY in the act of war we still revert to ' the mentality of the caveman. Man has, in many ways, learned to live with man al though there is still a far journey to go. Among nations, the goal is even more distant. But it was that goal which President Ken nedy had set himself to lead us toward the goal of peace on earth, good will toward men. He had sought it among the nations and had sought it among his own people, black and white, north and south. He had sought a lessening of international tensions while at the same time realizing the continuing need for strength in the jungle world of the 20th Century. HE HAD sought a land wherein no man was less worthy than another because his face was black. He had sought a land wherein no one would go hungry or live in frustrated idle ness. He had sought a land prosperous and at peace. He had sought a land wherein the intellect was respected, and wherein the artist, the mu sician, the author, the poet, were honored and made welcome. He had sought a land wherein knowledge and science were the servants of mankind, and not ends in themselves. And he had sought a land where every man, no matter what his origins, would have an opportunity to achieve the knowl edge and the skills to make himself a better man and the nation a better nation. .... rpHESE ARE lofty and search for them has been long, and otten frustrated by smaller men. It may be that the death of the young Presi dent who so valiantly sought to "get the country moving" toward these goals will somehow make further progress possible. It may be that the reactionaries and frustrationists will be shocked into a realization that the world is, after all, im provable, provided we set out to improve it. If that is to be the case it would be the most fitting memorial possible to the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Mrs, Kennedy's Courage Over the past three or covertly belittled Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy as a giddy butterfly, too her own pleasures ; beautiful, pehaps, but proba bly having little real character. Others and we are among them have felt gloss, here is a woman to Her behavior during the hours ending late yesterday confirms one thing: She is a tremendously determined woman with unbelievable self-control and courage. e e e LIERS HAS been no easy life, nor a "sheltered" one, as Mme. Nhu ungraciously wired her. She came from a broken home. She has had illnesses. She lost several babies through mis carriages, and one two days after he was born She has gone through all the rigors of campaign ing with her husband, and through the tremend ously demanding routine mistress of the White House. She has renewed and stirred interest in the arts, in architecture, in music and drama. She has brought a renewed Mansion, and taken the via television, thus providing a broadened under standing of our national heritage. e e A ND THEN at last, having to share her grief with the whole world, and before the eyes or trie world, sue set an example of courage which would put almost anyone else to shame. At all times she was meticulously correct in her behavior, but still retained her sense of in dividuality (as in her startling late-night visit to the bier in the Capitol rotunda). She was, indeed, more comforting than comforted, not only to her two children bewildered little John-John and half-comprehending Caroline but to the great and near-great who surrounded her. At the risk of sounding maudlin, we would declare her to be a worthy object of the nation's homage. E. A. noble goals, but the E. A. years, many have openly much concerned with pleased to be numbered that, beneath the surface command respect. the hideous events of of being First Lady and glory to the Executive whole nation through it, MEDFORD "I Still Can't Alone on a Darkling Plain By Arthur Hopps EN ROUTE TO WASHING TON It is night. Below the air liner the towns of America creep past, spidery pools of light in the blackness. The initial shock and grief at the assassination have eased. And I cannot look down on these sleeping commu nities without feeling a new emo tion: an uneasiness. Almost a naked fear. In the privacy of how many homes down there in the secrecy of how many minds is it shared? I feel it, I know one of my daughters feels it. She came home from school crying. "It was awful. They told us at re cess and one boy said he was glad and the other boys hit him with a rock and we stood on the bench screaming and a plane came over and I thought it was going to drop a bomb." Ana she cried, not so much in grief as in fear. So I held her on my lap, the way you do, and rocked her and said everything would be all right. But I don't know that it will. I don't know. What we have lost, my daugh ter and I, is not so much a great leader. Maybe Mr. Kennedy was a great leader. Maybe not. I'm not wise enough to know. No, what we have lost, she and I, is a focusing point, the bannister off the stairs, the top block on our pile. And If hatred and violence can snuff out the life of the most powerful and protected man in our world just like that what of us? What of us? If I died, she would, I know, feel the same about me. As her father, I am a certitude in her life, a known quality in the sea of unsureness through which children must find their way. That was what Mr. Kennedy was to both of us. Whether we admired much of what he did Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) Field Xnterprliet. lne. WAR AND SHAME "We ought to rewrite ancient history for children," a woman remarked to me recently, "so that conflict and combat aren't glorified. When they read about the Greeks fighting all the time, and the 10 years of the Trojan War, they think that war, if not noble, is at least normal." I suggested that this was a misreading of history especial ly among the ancient Greeks. Rather than glorifying war, they recogniied it as an evil, bitterly necessary though it sometimes might be. This is most obviously true when we consider the pantheon of the Greek gods, each of whom was given a distinct personality and specific attributes. Ares was the Greek god of war, and he la the most un pleasant character In the en tire pantheon. Nothing good Is ever ascribed to him he was surly, belligerent, covet ous, quarrelsome, ugly, under, handed, and above all en vious of the other gods. Neit, consider the outstand ing heroes among the Greeks. They were Achilles and Ulysses, the decisive men In the Trojan War. Yet Achillea was sent lo a far away Island, where he disguised himself as a woman, In order lo avoid, military service. Ulysses, the boldest and most running of Greek war riors, pretended lo be a deaf Idiot when summoned for the army. He was "drafted" Into MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. Believe It" (which I did) or disliked some of what he did (which I did), he was a known quantity, part of the fabric of our routine. The assassin's bullet had torn great hole in the tenuous web of our security. And now we have President Johnson. Perhaps the Presiden cy will bestow greatness on him as it has on others. "Will it?" I asked the cab driver on the way to the airport. "Do you think it will?" "I don't know much about him, but I think he'll do all right," he said. "I hope." He hopes. I hope. You hope But I don't know. That's what it is, I don't know. e Did they feel this way when President Garfield was killed? President McKinley? Even Pres ident Lincoln? I don t know, doubt it. I deeply believe my unease my fears are re flections of the perils of our times. For the world sits balanced on the razor's edge. A wrong decision would kill not a thousand nor a mil'ion, but 200 million or 400 million. You, me and my daughter. Never has the sea of unsureness appeared so deep, so turbulent. Never has peace nor ease, nor certitude appeared so precious. It is what my child feels. It Is what I feel. We feel it in dif ferent ways, perhaps, but we feel the same thing. And as I watch each tangle of light crawl by below in the blackness, I be lieve that many down there feel it, too. For the leader we knew the leader we knew so well is gone. We are left alone and, for this moment, we are all but frightened children on "a dark ling plain, swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night." service only by the trick of throwing his little boy Into Ihe path of his plough, and went off to war most un willingly. Among the Trojans, Hector (the most sensible, mature and manly ot the lot) openly op posed continuing the conflict which was bound to end in dis aster for both sides. Even though he was vanquished, in Greek literature he remains the only "moral hero" of the tragic aecade. In the centuries following, the great Greek plays, far from glorifying combat deplored and attacked it. Aristophanes mer cilessly flayed the countrymen for their aggressions; and the serious playwrights of that time condemned the "hubris, or pride, of the Greeks in trying to settle human disagreements by subhuman means and prophesied that the gods would punish them for these arrogant and bestial acts. What the lady meant was that most history, beginning with the earliest, is a record of wars and conquests, of military lead ers and campaigns. History does not need to be rewritten, or softened; It needs to be taught with intelligence and discrimi nation and a sense of permanent values. Most of all, we need to be told that those few nations which did "glorify" war (and the Greeks were not among them) left nothing to the future but a sense of shame among their miserable remnants. III Wl OREGON Memo to Foreign Policy Views r PHIL NIWSOM urirVreiinNmi Analyst Memo to various world lead ers: You will want to know about the new President of the United States, what kind of man he is and the foreign policy the Unit ed States will follow under his leadership. Many of you already have met this tall Texan who as vice president travelled about the world on missions in behalf of President Kennedy. First: Nikita Khrushchev: There were reports from high Commu nist diplomats in London over the weekend that you were deep ly disturbed that a change now may be made in U. S. strategy. You first met Johnson in Washington a couple of .years ago and it's probable you didn't make a' good impression. Your greeting to Johnson was recall ed thusly:, "I do not know you, but I have read all your speeches and I do not like any of them." In that case, you surely recall a speech Johnson made before the West Berlin Parliament in August, 1961, just after erection of the Berlin Wall. He said: "To the survival and to the creative future of this city, we Americans have pledged, in ef fect, what your ancestors pledged in forming the United States: 'Our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.' " That means there will be no lack of U. S. determination to continue to defend allied rights in West Berlin. Mao Tse-tung of Red China: "GO, STRANGER! WASHINGTON - Of all the men in public life in his time. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the most ideally formed to lead the United States of America. Such, at any rate, is this re porter's judgment, perhaps biased, but at any rate based on long experience and observa tion, and no longer possible to suspect as self-serving. To be sure, judging Kennedy was never easy, for he was no com mon man, to be judged by common standards. Courage, intelligence, and practicality; a passion for excel lence and a longing to excell; above all, a deep love of this country, a burning pride in its past, and unremitting c o n f i dence in the American future these were the qualities which acted, so to say, as the main springs of Kennedy the Presi dent. KENNEDY the man, Kennedy the private face, was half the enemy and half the re inforcement of Kennedy the President. . He had an enviable grace of manner and person. He enjoyed pleasure. After Theodore Roosevelt, he was the first American President to care for learning for its own sake. After Abraham Lincoln, he was the first American President with a rich vein of personal humor which is a very dif ferent thing from the capacity to make jokes. This strange, dry detached, self-mocking humor no doubt aided him to assess men and events; but in his public role, it was a handicap. Certainly it was not the same sort of handi cap as Lincoln's humor, which actually prevented great num bers of otherwise intelligent persons from taking Lincoln seriously. Kennedy's humor instead inhibited him from showing the depth of his feelings. Any pub lic exhibition of emotion gave him gooseflesh. So foolish peo ple said he was a cold, unfeel ing man, although few men in our time have had stronger feel ings about those things that mattered to him. AFTER HIS country, what " mattered most to him was to live Intensely, with purpose and effect. He was in some sense the ultimate personifica tion of the observation of Jus tice Holmes: "Man Is born to act; to act Is to affirm the worth of an end; and to affirm the worth ot an end is to create an ideal." The ideal that Kennedy af firmed in action was singularly simple: for no man was ever more contemptuous of the theo logical complexities of ideology, (It was hard to know, indeed, whether he held a more sover eign contempt for the doctrin aire musmness of the extreme American Left or for the doc trinaire hate-preachings of the World Leaders: President's You recall a visit Johnson made to Formosa and to South east Asia. In Formosa, Johnson told Chiang Kai-shek that the United States "has no Intention of recognizing the Peking regime" and opposes "seating the Peking regime in the United Nations." And you also must remember what Johnson said in the Philip pines. He said there that "we will continue to honor our ob ligations and will proceed either alone or with our free world friends to preserve our position in Asia." ...Communications... Letter, to the Ulter mart bear the name and de'reii ef the writer, althetio under certain circumstances the uie el a pen name ar initial fer publication It permlniale. The Mail Tribune reserves the rifht te edit all letters with a view te clarification and cendensatian. Lettera submitted fer publication mutt net eiceed 400 wordt. The letters printed In thit column do net necessarily represent the views of the paper; In fact the tentrary is often the case. The Creator1 To the Editor: The brain weighs about three pounds. It is largely composed of living cells. In these cells, 500 of which ex tend but one inch, the experi ence, education, and the mental skill of a lifetime are stord. From the billion nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord little silken fingers extend to all parts of the body. By this miracle tele graph system the movements of head, hands and feet are coordi nated. All move in harmony with the commands of the speci fied nerve centers that govern each part and function; even during sleep the heart beats, the lungs breathe, and the glands function; in obedience to these vigilant, sleepless keepers of the living temple (1 Cor.6: 19,20). The lungs are lined with a delicate membrance which if unfolded would cover 2,000 square feet. Beneath this mem brane an amount of blood equal Matter of Fact By Joseph Aliop It) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate extreme American Right. He was slow to anger, but these made his gorge rise.) HIS ideal could be completely summed up in only a score or so of words a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal; the proud strong hold of a new birth of freedom and the standing promise to all men that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. The noble, ancient phrases, the pieced-together tags from the finest of all Amer ican utterances, are as well- worn by now as antique coins, whose legend is illegible. But HE could read the legend still. HE still took this definition of our nation's purpose with per fect literalness and this was the ideal that his actions sought to affirm. WHEREAS Franklin Delano " Roosevelt took office when the nation was clamoring for leadership and crying out to be shown a new course, John Fitz gerald Kennedy took office in a time of violent, yet hardly com prehensible, change Too many. then as now, confronted the vast revolutionary proceses of our time either with fatty com placency or with shrill, embit tered indignation. His task was therefore a hard task, and he was untimely cut off before his task could be half done. Yet if we look at our country and the world in which we live if we honestly compare the prospects now opening before us with the prospects as they seemed when Kennedy s Presi dency began we can see that there has been a new birth of hope. It is perhaps pardonable, at this moment, to be personal. Speaking for myself, I have not dared to hope as I do now since those first months of the Korean War, when such overly high hopes were bom from the strong sense that America was grandly accomplishing a high, historic service. rpHAT SERVICE had its heavy price. I still remember watching the Wolfhound Regi ment through a long, hard fight, and how the bodies of the fallen were carried in when the fight was won, and how I suddenly could think only of Simonides' epitaph that was inscribed for all to read, on the tomb of the dead Spartans at Thermopylae: Go, Stranger, and in Licad- aemon tell That here obedient to the laws we tell. The President who is lost to us, like those men who were lost so many years ago, was no drilled, unthinking Spartiate. He was the worthy citizen of a na tion great and free a nation, as he liked to think, that is great because it is free and this was the thought that ilwavs inspired his too brief leadership of this republic. Are Well After Johnson got home from that trip he recommended that an additional $100 million be set aside for economic and mili tary aid to go primarily to South Viet Nam, Thailand and Pakis tan. Not much comfort for the Red Chinese there. President Charles de Gaulle: President Kennedy opposed your determination to build an in dependent French nuclear force. He did not like your veto of British membership in the Eu ropean Common Market. You remember that in Paris Johnson also called for "a true Atlantic to the entire bodily supply passes each minute for purifica tion. Each tiny red corpuscle, 3,500 of them to the inch, carriers with it a load of life-giving oxy gen larger than the corpuscle itself. "He giveth to aU life, and breath, and all things" (Acts 17:25). Speech, if possible, is the most mysterious. In the larynx are two vocal cords, each less than in inch in length and ex actly alike. Yet of the three billion persons, no two voices are precisely the same; yet each normal person can pro duce thousands of variations in tone and expression. The power and influence of speech is an even greater mir acle than the organ by which it is produced. It can pour forth the sweetest music, and stir the deepest emotions of the soul. It may arouse millions to face peril and death undaunted, or it may sooth the timid babe to rest, and to the troubled heart whisper, "Peace, be still." "Truly, Death and life are in the power of the tongue." And how did mankind acquire so priceless a talent, so mar velous a gift? "Who hath made man s mouth? . . . have not I the Lord?" "The answer of the tongue, is from the Lord." (Ex. 4:11; Prov. 15:1). The Creator who made these delicate organs out of the dust and breathed into them the breath of life, (Gen. 2:7) is the creator of all nature. Nature declareth his glory and showeth his handiwork. F. E. Beverly 112 Geneva St. Medford Know The Facta To the Editor: It seems that you and A.E.J, and his "ilk" label everyone that you do not agree with as a Bircher. You referred to the writer and the "Big Lie" 11-13-63 as a Bircher. Wrong again. It might be well to know the facts before label ing anyone. "Jumping to con clusions is not half as good exercise as digging for the facts." The men who picketed Earl Warren in N.Y. were called Birchers, but it was proven they were not. Also the ones, in L.A. that caused some disturbance lately were proven not to be JB's. There are several hundred groups of God fearing Ameri cans who are upholding our constitution and fighting to save our beloved country. Remember Noah and how he was ridiculed when he tried to warn the people to turn to God? What happened? I wouldn't call him as having a "misguided zeal" because he was on the extreme right and proving the facts were "too ridiculous" for anyone to take seriously" (as AEJ 11-1043 said regarding a recent letter). If the Hargis, Smoots, Schwartz, Tom Ander sons and other rightists are just "stating falsehoods," then why has not it been proven? Have you ever heard of any of them taking the fifth amendment? They are not afraid to stand up and be counted, they know what they are talking about and try ing to awaken the American people out of their stupor. With all the smears that the spineless liberals are handing out proves wey are being fright ened, because of the rapid in crease of the Americans who are hearing the "Voices in the Wilderness" as to the conditions our country Is in. As one com mander said a few days ago, "The Invisible government is beginning to be visible." When Anti-Communist Mme. Nhu came to the U.S. she was given a cold shoulder. But Red Dictator Tito came for a hand out he was given the red carpet. Likewise some years ago Pro American Mme. Chiang Kai shek was treated coldly. But old Kroosh was given a hearty welcome. ' Who Is to blame? Some in the State Department have been there too long. It's time we are getting rid of them. Mrs. Ernest Santo 204 Lozier Lane Medford. Dedicated Woman To the Editor: Mary Hittson Ward (of Talent, who was killed In an automobile accident Sun day afternoon north of Grants Pass) was a very dedicated Known community with common Insti tutions." He told you that in stead of French nuclear forces, NATO needed to reinforce its non-nuclear defense. . . Joint memo to Prime Minister Nehru of India and President Mohammad Ayub Khan fo Pak istan; You must remember the man's humanities.- With Nehru he discussed hunger, illiteracy and disease and how they could be eliminated. . In your country, Ayub Khan, he met a simple camel driver who later became his guest in the United States. woman. She spent her entire life helping others. She organized and was presi dent of the "Workers of Wake, Guam and Cavite." Originally called "The Women of Wake Island," it was formed in Los Angeles for the sole purpose of helping the families and widows of the construction men who were captured or killed on the now famous Wake Island. It is truly unbelievable that this one lone person could and did accomplish such feats dur ing the four years between 1941 and 1945, while her husband and some 1,250 other construe tion workers were either killed or captured and prisoners of war of the Japanese. And all this was only the beginning for Mary Ward. Aft er the war and the release of these men who were still alive, and their eventual return to the United States, her work really started. She wanted proper compen sation and medical care for these men or the widows. She spent as much as 10 months out of a year in Washington, D.C., battling, lobbying, making con nections to help these men. She out-maneuvered such a re nowned attorney - as Harold Keele of Chicago, III., who later, through admiration of this in telligent woman and her hu manitarian causes, became on of her best friends and valuable allies. This same story is true with such prominent men as Harry Morrison, president of Morri-son-Knudson Construction Co.; George Farris, Raymond Con crete and Pile; the heads of Bureau of Compensation in Washington, D.C.; congressmen and senators; government offi cials of all offices she visited so many times, began to love and admire this wonderful, ded icated person. She never lost a battle in Washington, D.C., whether it was for the group as a whole or an individual on a medical case. The men of "The Work ers of Wake, Guam and Cavite" called her their "Guardian An gel." The congressmen, attor neys for Pacific Naval Air bases, U.S. Government offi cials, and the construction com panies involved, called her "The Smallest Organization With the Mightiest Results." Even the taxpayers could not complain of the numerous bills and benefits and compensations that she derived for these men because she slyly learned of a jack-pot in Washington, D.C., that no one as yet had been able to get his fingers into and was a natural for her. This was the confiscation of land and property during the war of all Japanese and German assets in America. When these people were deported and the lands sold, it left millions of dollars in the U.S. Treasury that no one really knew what to do with. Mary Ward knew what to do with a very small part of it and she felt great satisfaction in winning from the countries that had caused these men so much suffering and loss of life. A book could and should be written on Mary Hittson Ward and she would have been a natural for "This Is Your Life." Bus Sporer, 1H2 W. Fairhaven Roseburg, Ore. UNICEF Thanks To the Editor: Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for your generous cooperation with our efforts on behalf of the world's needy children and mothers this year. we tuny appreciate the ex tent to which your outstanding support has contributed to strengthening UNICEF's assist ance to over 500 long-range pro grams in 116 countries by mak ing our own projects more sue cessful. Please believe that your gen erosity is not taken for granted. We wish we could thank you in as many languages as are spoken by the young benefici aries of t'iN'iCEr '8 aid. Victor de Keyserling Director of Information Services U. S. Committee for UNICEF United Nations New York. N.Y.