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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, HlDrORoJrTUBUKI ""Everyone in Southern Oregon Beads The MaU Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday D MEDKORD PRINTING CO 13 NorthJirSt, Ph. 77H-8141 ROBERT W BUHL,. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Menaiei GERALD T LATHAM, Bua itfki ERIC w ALLEN JR.. Mne. Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Ed to OLIVE SI ARCHER Women's Kdlto, pALj:RICKNircuJatlor.jal An Independent Newspapel Entered as second class matter al Medtord Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Uy M8II in -iuv-...,.,. R On Daily end Sunday 6 mos 10 0.00 Dailv and bunaay a m Rundav Only One year 15 SOU 5.00 Sim-la Copy (Mailed! 30C By Carrier And Motor Route .jally and Sunday 1 year 21 .00 .78 uauy ana ouiiuw . BOO irriAT inn vendors COP? 10c Official Paper of City of Mjdtord Official Paper of Jacksun County United Press International full Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturee "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising; Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC! caeo Detroit. San Francisco. Los Anceies oeaiue. r . Denver. HAT1QNA1 lOITOHUl Member California Newipaper Publliheri AuocUUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tn files of The Mail Tribune- 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO no,, i lo.vt (Tursdav) City crews were husy pulling up new street decorations today in preparation (or Mcdford's gala Christmas opening tumui row evening. Search is continuing for a 13-year-old Phoenix girl who dis appeared eight days ago; foul play is feared. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 1. l!it:t (Wednesday) Cpl. Bill J. Lorton, Medford, inrinrir.il iii a list of American servicemen held as prisoners of war hy Japanese. From Arthur Perry's "Ye "smnrlno Pnt" column: "A new product advertises 'Writes dry with wet ink.' H is a flare-back in n.iiiiirians nf the Prohibition ers, who talked dry and drank get." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 1, 1933 (Friday) Medford High School football learn defeats Bend, 7 to 0, for slate championship; Max Gilin sky scores touchdown and Bill Bates also stars. U. S. Department of Com merce figures show Jackson County fifth in the nation in production of pears. 411 YEARS AGO Dee. 1, 11I23 (Saturday)' .lorry Jerome blinded tempor arily when tire he was fixing exploded, blow ing sand and dust in his eves. Mrs. J. J. Murphy, Ashland, member of family (or whom Neil creek was named, dies. 50 YEARS AGO Dee. 1, 11113 (Monday) S. Meyers purchases ranch in Antelope area from Ralph Cow- n,ll (nr Sl IMM) Insurance man reports that Jackson county couruiouse, con structcd fur $20,(100, is now in sured by $:!3,000. What's Your I.Q.? sj.na i. rnwtmet It aunarlarl seven or eight Is aicallant; five or sik it good. 1. The praying mantis insect Is harmless to man; true or false? 2. Where Is the Acropolis lo- caled.' 3. The noled Blarney Stone Is in a cawio in acotiana, uoiann, or wales." 4. Is il true, or false, Ihat the only incla'.s used to coin money have been gold and silver? 5. Frederic Chopin, noted conv poser, was of Polish, Russian, or Czech birth? fl. The parliament of the new West German Republic meets in which German City? 7. Which early explorer ol tho new world was searching for the Seven Cities of Cibola? 8. Does tlie Danube River flow Into the Medilerranean, the Aegean, or the Black Sea? 9. The North Pole is in the Arclic; where is Ihe South Pole? 10 Is Ihe planet Jupiter larg er or smaller than Ihe earth? Answer:l. True. 2. Athens. 3. Ireland. 4. False. 5. Polish, ft. Bonn. 7. Francisco Coronadn. . Black Sea. . Antarctic. 10. Larger. 4 A PA-SOCIATION DECEMBER 1, 1963 Violence and The proverbial aftermath of violence is re pression, borne restrictive of Congress as the result assassination, although in the funeral it is diiticult to speculate as to sub ject matter. Certain to be debated publicly is the easy availability of high-powered weapons. The owner of a Chicago sporting goods firm from which the murder carbine "probably" was bought by mail order said on Nov. 24 that hundreds of com panies were in the same business. That the gun allegedly was bought under an assumed name only aggravated the issue. A N ATTEMPT on the Truman in November, 1950, created irara& diate speculation that the security Act might be tive. Actually, Congress failed to act on this threat and at the next session eased Department of Jus tice regulations under the McCarran Act that created hardships tor immigrants. But in the more distant past the public will has been expressed more directly. What would have happened after the Civil War had Presi dent Lincoln lived is of course a matter of specu lation. Certainly, however, his successor, Presi dent Andrew Johnson, was unable to keep the reconstruction period from being much more dif ficult for the South than it would have been had Booth not fired his fatal shot. IN A CONTROVERSY with Congress over the President's power over May 26, 1865, proclaimed federates except certain abolish slavery and ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. States doing so added anti-Negro provisions that enraged Congress, which had intended to enfranchise all Negroes and disenfranchise for mer Confederates. Congress restored military control over the South. Then Johnson removed Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, without notifying the Senate, thus repudiating the Tenure of Office Act. For this and other reasons, the House of Representa tives impeached him. The Senate on May 26, 1868 voted .15 for conviction, 19 for acquittal, lacking the two-thirds necessary to convict. He was not nominated by the next convention of his party. THE STATUE which bars anarchists from the United States was a direct aftermath of the assassination of President McKinley at Buffalo in 1901. In his first annual message President Theodore Roosevelt said such persons "should be kept out of this country; and if found here they should be promptly deported to the country whence they came; and far-reaching provision should be made for the punishment of those who stay." An insane ' man attempted to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt himself in 1912. No new inrrlul'if inn !u li'iipnnhln In (Ill's; Jilfpnml lull lllf successful attempt on the life of President Gar- finlrl in 1SSI hv a rlisJMimninlprl nr'r'ii'P-KPpkpr had led to the passage two years later of a basic civil service measure. Tim fain woimiliiiir of cago ill an attempt to assassinate Franklin Roose velt in 19.S3 was lollowed by demands tor anli- Pnmininiicl mivwnriiy Tim lirri-Ciwt rn :ti'l ivii ios of Lee Harvey Oswald similar agitation. E.U.R. The Johnson Prospect The financial comnumilv expresses its poli tics in terms of shares rather than ballots. Thus the initial reaction of the New York Stock Ex change must be taken as a sturdy, even surpris ing, vote of confidence in the Presidency of Lyn don B. Johnson. The Dow-Jones industrial aver age climbed a record-breaking 82. 015 points on Nov. 26, ami on the following day the market appeared steady. The U.S. government bond market was firm on the first trading day of the Johnson Presi dency. The sum of these phenomena is that the busi ness community, rightly or wrongly, believes that a Johnson administration will be friendly to it, just as it believed perhaps to its disad vantage in the case of this year's tax bill that the Kennedy administration was hostile. lyilE IMMEDIATE stock market reaction to 1 previous Presidential assassinations or ill nesses was unpredictable. As assessed by U.S. News & World Report, the market turned up after the assassination of President McKinley and after President Wilson's collapse. After the death of President Harding in 192o it held strong, then rose, only to fall again. The immediate upturn after President Frank lin D, Roosevelt's cerebral hemorrhage might have been anticipated, as might the o2-poiiu plunge after President Eisenhower's heart attack. The sell-off before the market closed on the Friday of President Kennedy's assassination was 21.16 points in the Dow-Jones industrial average. IN NORMAL circumstances, the stock market is expected to anticipate political trends and to discount them. On one aspect the analysts appear to be agreed: the selling on the Friday of the assassi nation was by the panicked public; the buying on Tuesday, after the week end of worrv'and grief, was by institutions and the Wall Street professionals. E.R.R. Repression action can be expected of President Kennedy's the stunned hours after life of President Harry new McCarran Internal made even more restric the South, Johnson on an amnesty to all Con leaders it they would Mavor Cermak of Chi will certainly generate JOHNSON'S NKXT BRIDGE WASHINGTON As everyone has already said, President Johnson's speech to tho joint session of Congress was a re markable performance per fectly suitable in the most dif ficult circumstances, vigorous and inspiring, directly calcu lated to get results, and certain to reassure the vast overseas audience that had been waiting to sec what the new leader of the United States would be like. This Johnson performance was all the more remarkable, il must be added in all frankness, because this sort of thing has never before been Ihe new President's long suit. Inarticu lateness has most certainly never been one of his failings, but eloquence has not been one of his gifts cither. The fact that he attained genuine eloquence, unmarred by a false note, is another proof of the rule Hint the Presidency has a way of stretching a man until he fits the requirements of the office. Eloquence is ry no means the primary require ment; hut it is a very impor tant requirement; and it is even more important abroad than it is at home. w HENCE every sensible Ameri can will rejoice that the new President has triumphantly passed his first, very hard test on the world stage, on which modern American Presidents arc called upon lo represent and speak for (his country in a worthy manner. In every re snecl. Johnson has made a conspicuously successful si art It is important lo underline i the success ol this beginning, even at the expense ol reitor- ating what is obvious, tor ; son will need all his exceptional rather simple reason. To be Rfts t0 Rct safr,jv across ho blunt about il. President John-, bridge herein imperfectly de son has his most dangerous fustJ scrjned bridges still ahead ol mm. Whether his Presidency will get off to a completely successful start is still an open question. The test will he the one lie can continue emphasized so strongly what President Kennedy began. IVlFKinKNT JOHNSON is a 1 formidable man. with bound-, al sl,los manager, said the pro i. .n .n nn.ini-! gram would reactivate U.S. Rub- to gel things done. But il is a reasonable prediction that he will be unable to maintain this continuity, which he certainly ; u,r lulal operanon on a par lose jobs as a result ol the pro desires, 'unless he is able to , with us Seattle operations. gram. imitate President Truman in at " least one respect Truman's first administration was one of the highest periods of the American Presidency, above all memorable lor its bold and creative new depart ures. The prime credit must go to the unassuming little man of whom Ihe mosl mediocre per- i (ormaiu'c w as e x p e c I e d by everyone (including, lo nis shame, this reporter). Rut this memorable performance would hardly have been within Presi dent Truman's reach if he had nol wisely kept on duty the many outstanding public serv anls," like James V. Forreslal whom he inherited from Presi- dent Roosevelt. President Johnson comes inlo office just as President Truman did, with a lew wise friends and advisors, but with no advisors wilh direct, detailed, recent ex - perience of the problems he will now confront, and with nothing ilike Ihe personal staff any sue- cessful President needs. As in I Truman's case, loo, Johnson is the kind of ebullient, old - fash - ioned politician who attracts harpies - - and the line is of course forming on the right. ' " ' 'IMIl'S, continuity will depend i in part on President John - : son's success in repulsing the iini(M,-.- , -,-.im-timiK i iiaiviini Truman did not do very success- fully). Bui continuity will main- ly depend on President John- MEDFORD M'.t TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop lc) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate son's success in continuing to use President Kennedy's best recruits to the public service, in the Truman manner. This will in fact be more troublesome for Johnson than for Truman. Far more than President Roosevelt, President Kennedy had a strange power of inspiring close personal at tachment. President Roosevelt had inspired this sort of attach ment in only one exeeplionally able man. And President Tru man was unable to keep Harry L. Hopkins. Yet almost all the leading, ablest men of the Kennedy ad ministration felt about Ken nedy almost as Hopkins felt about Roosevelt, though of course without aspiring to be the sort of Presidential alter ego that Hopkins was. RIGHT there is President Johnson's human problem. He has wisely asked all the best Kennedy-era public servants to stay on, including the key mem bers of President Kennedy's White House stall. There is no doubt thai he wants Ihcm to stay on. In one or two cases, Presi dent Johnson may not and per haps should not get what he wants. For instance, super human fortitude will be re quired, or a grave disaster will be risked, if Attorney General Robert Kennedy tries to serve another man as he served his brother, without afterthoughts or regrets. But in the great ma jority of cases, the chief men who served President Kennedy have a duly, if only lo Ken- nnrll-'s momnrv In hrtln lnl,ntnn cnniinne win TP his nrpHnminr mi nff All the same. President Jolin- U. S. Rubber Planning Portland Headquarters nrllTI I Tn itnt n n i make Portland its sales and dis- tribulion headquarters (or Ore gon and southwest Washington. 1,1 " nl. a. Harvey, western region- ! cr.s district offices and dislri- bl"lon facility at Kellogg Park I ln nearby Milwaukie and put Will Death Shock Us Into Our By ERIC SEVAREID (imirlhulr-fl I9K3, Hy Thr Hull S nrllratr, Inc.) (All Ittchts Hf-sfn rrt) We are all of us dazed and spent at the end ol such a week, a climacteric in the American' drama all ol us, those who ; must act, Ihose who wrile and speak about it, Ihose who read : and listen and wonder. j We wonder if our people will Island togelher now in shocked I sobriety behind their new lead-: r, leagued in common sense,! their heads ruling Iheir unruly spirits. We wonder if they will divide even further, as the shock ; wears off, spreading the cancer spots ol venom Ihat exist in a thousand places. This is a fair land For must, it is a prosperous land. We have 1 always been a people lo whom the future beckoned more than iiir pnsi. nr iio.p with mi mi m 1 istic. a moralistic, a passionate i people. Were we a jaded and cynical people, perhaps these! OREGON IT V THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS In the solemn pause while the President lay dead, there reigned over the troubled world an unearthly calm. No one can suppose it will last. But when inevitably it ends, we should make sure to remember it. For it expressed a profound and saving truth. It is that our daily preoccu pations are not supremely im portant. It is that the issues which divide the naiton, which divide the world, are not the ul timate concern of mankind. In the presence of a young man's death and of his brilliant promise cut short by the terrible evil in mankind, the better, na ture of man was for a time in command. When next we work ourselves up into a tantrum about something or other, let us remember how small it is in the perspective of the first and last things of human experi ence. REMEMBERING this, let us begin to look at the unfin ished business of the state, but to look at it unhurriedly, not anxiously, without a compulsion to start talking and acting for no better reason than the itch to do something about some thing. There is no present crisis in world affairs, no fire which (he President must rush to extinguish. The gathering in Washington of Ihe dignitaries from all the nations was not only an act ol homage to President Kennedy. It was also a demonstration to this nation that there is a foundation of good feeling on which it can proceed. President De Gaulle came here, I think, to say that the problem ol readjusting the Western Alliance to the revival of Europe is a mailer between civilized rreri, not tragic or in soluble. W. Khrushchev sent his closest associate, Mr. Mik oyan, to say, I think, that he ciings to and cherishes the his toric advance made under Pres ident Kennedy, which has been to defuse the cold war. w IT IS really unnecessary for President Johnson to reaffirm t h e American commitments, since he has taken part in mak ing them. There is no need for him to promise with pedantic detail that nothing will change. For in facl the world is chang ing. There will come before him the unfinished business of read justing the polity of Ihe United Stales lo the changing balance of power between the old world and the new. The old world consists of the two Europes and Ihe Soviet Union and, unavoidably, China; it has changed radically since World War II, and it is chang ing rapidly now. The President should, above all things, not let himself be rushed into fore closing the future. It is vain lo suppose that Ihe United Stales policy in l!NM and alter can be or will be a carbon copy of what it has been during the postwar era. The most pressing unfinished business is here at home. We have Ihe gigantic work of adjusting our way of life lo the scientific revolution of this age, lo the .stupendous growth ol (he population and to Ihe Work for Welfare Recipients Endorsed PORTLAND (UPI) - Repre sentatives ol organized labor Wednesday endorsed the Mult nomah County program calling for welfare recipients to work. They emphasized, however, they would walch the effort closely to see that union and civil service employes did not tilings would not have happened. No one would have cared that much. Hut in Ih.ese years, it is clear now to all, our passions have taken many crooked courses. Suspicion and haired have sur-! mounted trust and love among too manv large minorities. lard, tunnelled lumps arc re vealed at Ihe bottom of the American melting pot. Almost daily, legal force must be called upon to restrain illegal force. We are deeply infiltrated by Ihe Negro-haters, the whitc-hai- habits of mind, and have ro-1 identity, and with it their self- ers. the foreigner-haters, theivealed the naked state of Ihe control city-haters, government-haters, American soul. The history oil the haters ol the rich and the j this generation has never al- It is hard enough lo stand haters ol the poor, those of the .lowed Ihis people lo rest and to, steady during one revolution, political right who hate andlcalm its spirit. We have been j and we are Irving to endure Ihose ol the left. I sobered and frightened by a j several at once political, sci- ' " great depression, radically re-ientific. racial, cultural, and I Americans are struggling for, aligned in the social revolution Ihe soul of their country. A cen-ithat followed, caught up in two ! liny ago the struggle by means long wars, one in Korea of free discussion broke down. , that wc could not understand. The government broke down. : maddened by years ol the devil- i the nation broke apart. Lincoln theory of politics: we have felt idled, and vengeance look pos- somehow betrayed hy the ad- session nf men otherwise gmxi. vance nf world Communbm. John Kennedy has died in Ihe frustrated bv Ihe jecming lack midst of this present struggle of results from our own great for Ihe national soul, a kind of i efforts overseas; we have pack- 1 1 ii w.n, in wn:in inp conons are many and Ihe battle lines not very clear. It is not x com- plele answer lo jay that one in - Today and Tomorrow By Walter tippmann (CI 1963 Th Wsihinston Pott conglomeration of great masses of our people in the cities. These are the problems of all the mod ern nations, and they are not insoluble. BUT for us the most poignant unfinished business is also especially our own. It is to go on with the task of assuaging the remaining consequences of slavery. The sins of the fathers, which was to contaminate the land with slavery, are visited upon us. Dealing with this original evil is a task which has for a hundred years strained deeply and tragically the integrity of the Union. We cannot renounce the task, we cannot palter with it, we have to go on. Yet we know that - nothing has ever divided us so bitterly. So let us pray that the first Southerner whu has been Pres ident of the United States since the Civil War will have the honor of healing the nation. In the Day's News By FRANK From Dallas (Texas) this Thanksgiving Day morning: A man who received $23,000 for his color movie films of President Kennedy's assassina tion gave that entire sum yes terday to the family of Police Patrolman J. D. Tippit, slain by the man accused as the assas sin of the President. AN ancient question: Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? (John 1: 46.) Question often asked today: Can any good thing come out of Dallas? rpHE answers: A Jesus came out of Naza reth. This kindly deed was done in Dallas. There is good wherever GOOD PEOPLE live. There are more good people than bad people. That has always been true. It's good to remember. SOMETHING else to re member: The Pilgrim Fathers came to America to got freedom. It was rough in the wilderness, but freedom in a raw wilderness was more esteemed by them than LACK OF FREEDOM IN MORE COMFORTABLE SUR ROUNDINGS. That's a good thing for all of ft i "You hinder me, for you do not dividual lunatic was responsible and that all cities, all countries have their lunatics. His lunacy was fortified by its alignment wilh one ol many irrational po litical mystiques. The additional furies that his act released des- : troyed him in turn, as the (uries released bv John nilkes Booth deslroyed Booth a hundred tions, must possess a firm im years ago. age of themselves If they are ! The events of this past week iiae pun asiiie hip cuiiaui of our rationalizations, our old eo ourselves, more and more, in i great urban centers wilh all their tensions, which have 1 reached an explosive stage with GREAT IDEAS sn FOREIGN AID Dear Dr. Adler: Should we try to lilt the economic stand arils of the .people .of .the world? Can we do for an other country what it will not do for itself? Should we aid backward countries which may become our rivals In the future? What are the proper aims of foreign aid, accord ing lo traditional and present day views? Mrs. Martcen Wall 22111 Yamparika St. Vernon, Texas Dear Mrs. Wall: In former times foreign aid was simply a means of furthering the donor nation's power and prestige. A great power supported one or more "have - not" states in order to advance its own stra tegic interests, not out of any JENKINS us to remember. STILL more to remember especially in these days when crackpots tell us that communism is the wave of the future: Both at Jamestown, in 1607, and at Plymouth 13 years later (where Thanksgiving Day ori ginated) the communal system was tried at the beginning. It was a TOTAL failure at both places. Under the communal system, firsl at Jamestown and later at Plymouth, the people were starving. In both places, the communal (communist) system was abandoned and each was given HIS OWN plot or ground, and told that it was his to be done with us he pleased. The immediate result was PLENTY for everybody. Don't ever let anybody tell you that tho communist svslcm is better than the free enter prise system. It isn't Irue. Jamestown and Plymouth proved that long ago, GLANCING backward lo our beginnings, this fact stands oul: WORK IS A GOOD THING not something to be dreaded. It was WORK that built America. It is work that has made Ameri ca what it is today. r, v side wilh God. but with men." (.Malt. 16:23. Goodspecd) Senses? I the rise of the Negro's long de- layefl revolt. It is more than the American nervous system that is (rayed; it is our whole organic svstem i of traditional beliefs and hopes and assumptions. Men. as in dividuals or as communal, ra cial or class groups, or as na- to live and work in calmness ! and sanity. When the mirror necomes cracKea ann siroaKcn ' they begin to lose Iheir sense ol 1 demographic. Order is not going to surmount disorder, the shal- tered pieces of our fragmented ' society will not find their proper places again, unless we can somehow' re-discover our corn- mon trust. If the death of our vibrant voung leader, our happy prince. our svmbol nf America's vouth- ful hone and belief can 'brine ! us io our senses, then John ! Kennedy will have done far, far more for his people thai) he will I ever know. Kf ii I 4 t4 lM rjsi- j -'-it i I-) jatiK m m from the ureal Books By Mortimer 3. Adfer (c) M61 Puhlisljeri' Honpipep Sys&aU charitable impulse to foster their economic development. The normal relation of a great power to peoples under its con trol was modeled on that of a dairy farmer to his cows. The weaker, undeveloped countries were milked to provide raw materials or markets for the, products of the stronger power. This hard - nosed attitude. toward relations with weaker nations, which was expressed eloquently by Pericles in Athena 2,500 years ago, is still taken by many political leaders and pub licists today. They believe that aid should be extended only to nations which are linked to us by military alliances, not to na tions which are unaligned, and certainly not to nations with ideologies opposed to our own. During the period after World War II, United States foreign aid was granted mainly with these "realistic" aims in mind, and a good deal of our aid in the future is earmarked for these purposes. However, even in the first years of the post war era the view arose that aid should be given to foster European economic recovery, apart from strategic considerations in the Cold War. The Marshall Plan was set up in this spirit, al though in practice it excluded the nations of the Soviet bloc. This type of aid aimed at raising Ihe economic levels o( the countries aided, rather than at buttressing military and po litical alliances has become more and more important. President Truman's Point IV program to aid undeveloped countries initiated a new phase in foreign aid. President Ken nedy's call for a "decade of de velopment" in such countries and his sponsorship of the new Agency for International Devel opment (AID) further extended Ihe new policy. The Alliance lor Progress, which aims at the economic development of the Latin - American countries, marks another important slop in carrying out Ihis program. The assumption underlying ims Kind oi aid is mat world peace, order, and freedom can be assured only if Ihe "h&ve not" nations develop info pro ductive, self-reliant, and satis fied communilies. It is assumed that the seeds of social up heavals and wars germinate in a situation in which two - Ihirds of mankind lives al or below a bare subsistence level. The intention of such aid pro grams is to help the aided countries lo develop sell - sus taining economies. Hence. Ihe emphasis is on long-term loans at low-interest rates, rather' than on outright grants. Hence' also a determined effort is made to see that the money goes where it will do the most good for the economy as a whole, not into the pockets of a favored few. Other countries have been: drawn into the role of donors or lenders through such agen cies as the International De-. velopment Association and the Inter - American Development. Hank. Aid programs to Ihe un-' developed countries are. in the ory at least, intended In he mul tilateral, co-operative ventures, not merely United States proj ects. Critics of those programs point out that their success may bring disadvantages lo the do nor countries. The European Economic Community, com' posed of nations which were aided to attain economic re covery through the Marshall' Plan, is now a strong and troublesome competitor ol ours in the world market. India's economic development enabled her to take away a good share of Britain's texlile trade: and now India in turn is losing part of that IraHn In nnvvlv Hnvnlnnerl countries in Southeast Asia.' Airline the undeveloDCd coun. ! trips mav Si rnnnthnn llinm cr I much Ihat the relative power and influence nf Ihe United States may he diminished. The American people and their lead ers, therefore, must decide) whether they are willing In ad just themselves lo such a pos siblity in order lo accomplish. ' world harmony and prosperity,! j or whether they prefer to re-' tain Iheir dominant position j among peoples now living misery and poverty. You can win a Si-volume set of the Great Books of Ihe ' Western World by wriling o : letter, not lo exceed 150 words, Incorporating a qnes-! Hon of genrral Interest for Dr. Adler to consider for in-. elusion in this column. Each week he will select as first priie winners the writers nf (hr three hrst Inters. He will irp 0K nf these loiters as a basis for a lutiirp rnlumn aril will aiwipr it in terms nf the intrllrrtiial heritage nf Ihe tirral Bonks -113 works hy 71 aulhors. spanning 31) centuries of thought. Address the letters to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, In care of this newspaper.