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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY. MlDrORD&&J,UBUNI "Evaryona In Southern Oregon nids Tha Mall Trlbvr.c" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 23 North rir St, Ph. 77H-6141 ROBESar wTRUrtL. Editor HERB GREY AdvertUInf Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bui Mr ERIC ALLEN JR.. Mnir Editor EARL a ADAMB. city Mini uannv rHlPMAN Telee Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporll Editor OLIVE STAKl-MEK women DALE EBICKIiON.jCltculatlori Mfj a n iri.iunHnl NewsnaDel entered aa tecond claw matter at Medford ureson unner v. March 3, 18DJ SUBSCRIPTION RATES a..,. In iiluinw Dally and Sunday 1 year 111 00 Dally and Sunday mos 10 00 Dally and Sunday-3 moi. SOU Sunday Only One year MOO smelt Copy (Malledi a., r Anrt Mnt.r ROUte. "1j-7. " i ... aai nn jaiiy ana aun.ia; Dally and Sunday I mo 1-J3 Sunday Only 1 mo. Mo r.rrl.r and Vendora Copy lOo Official Paper ol City of Medfnra nffltlal Paper IMjit County United Press International lull LesseJ Wire 0 P. 1. Telephoto Newiipleture 'MXMBEROF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising R-ire"ri,,;lvi;,rir NELSON ROBERTS ASSOC!. ivrB miliiM In Nw VnrK. Cm- cano. Detroit. San Francisco. Lol Anselea. Seattle. Portland Denver. NIWIPAPlI Member California Newspaper Publishers AssoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of This Mall Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years iso. 10 YEARS ago Dec. 2, 1953 (Wednesday) A 36-page "scratch draft" of a proposed meat inspection or dinance was submitted last night to the Mcdtord City Coun cil by members of the local meat Industry. Russell W. DcForrcst last night resigned as municipal judge after it was determined his legal residence was outside Medford City HmlU. 2ft YEARS AGO Dec. 2. 1043 (Thursday) Medlord restaurants to ob serve meatless day Dec. 7, ac- cording to H. E. Bush and Dale Franklin, olllcers oi me boiiiii ern Oregon Restaurant associa tion. Frank Hull, mamigur of Jack son County Chamber of Com merce, announces sale of old Chamber of Commerce building on West Main Street to Southern Pacific railroad. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1033 (Saturday) Medford postmaster to be ap pointed by Jan. 1, 1034, Jack son County Democrats promise. Medford High School turns down post-season football gume with Washington of Portland on grounds that nothing would be decided. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1923 (Sunday) Still no clues reported on whereabouts of DcAutrcmnnt brothers, sought for the Siski you tunnel murders and at' temn-tcd train robbery. Gala Christmas opening scheduled tonight by Medford merchants 30 YKAR8 AGO Dec. 2. 1913 (Tuesday) J. M. Nichols, the "Dry" ran didate, elected mayor of Eagle Point. Southern Pacific schedules special rales from Medford to Hoseburg for meeting of Oregon Development league. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or sight Is cicellent; five ot sis is good. 1. Before blotting paper was Invented, what substance was used to take up excess ink? 2. Who said, "I am not a Vir ginian but an American"? 3. Does the warden ol a prison have Ihc right to reprieve or commute a prisoner's sentence? 4. Lake Champlain lies be tween which two states? 5. Correct the following: "The book sels on the table." 6. On what sort of surface Is the game of curling played? 7. What form of popular sport it played with disks and cues? 8. Are polar bears found in the North or South polar region? 9. In what city is the famed St. Peter's Basilica? 10. Is ambergris, principal in gredient of expensive perfume, obtained from musk oxen, am ber, whales or skunks? Answers: I. Sisntl. :. Patrick Henry? .1. No. 4, New York and Vermont. 5. "The hook sin , . ." . Ice. !. HWfirtxierd. g, North. . V.tLjan City. '0. Shales. 4 A fMJiUIHIft. V-a1iociation DECEMBER 2, 1M3 Killer Mentality Unlike some of the perhaps many persons now believe there was any communist plot in volved in the assassination of President Ken nedy. Nor do we feel Ruby shot Oswald, with a national television audience watching in horror, in an effort to keep him from talking. To be sure, in an event so momentous, so literally earth-shaking, one looks automatically for a strong malevolent purpose, for a dark master plot of some kind in explanation. But we are satisfied, contrary is available, and after watching tele vision reports for hours and reading every scrap of copy we could get our hands on, that no such evil design was present here. THIS was. we conclude, with strong mixed feelings, just the work of twisted, psychotics, each acting not m re sponse to a command from some higher schem ing power, but, pitiably, from the insane dictates of elemented minds. It is true that Oswald called himself a Marxist and was affiliated with some idiot group called "Fair Play for Cuba Committee." But it seems clear that he had no real ideological basis or intellectual comprehension of the very things he said he believed in. It is manifest, however, that the sullen faced youth was a total misfit in society, wherever he went or whatever he tried to do. His failures in school, his constant fights with other bovs, his unsuccessful record in the Marine Corps, his vocational instability, all attest to it. Picture the frustration at Demg unaoie to feel from his point rejection in this country, and then, worse yet, not to be able to find ease or acceptance in this country s antithesis, Communist Kussia. THWARTED by bureaucratic red tape in his recent atteirmt to visit Cuba and Russia, it is perhaps understandable that he should central ize all that frustration and irrational hatred against President Kennedy, the titular and sym bolic head or our nation John Connally, against whom he seemed to feel a personal score in connection with the condi tions oi his discharge irom Oswald s state ol mind as he planned tne assassination, indeed as is somewhat analagous to the ordinary man who, having been rebuked by his boss, goes home and vents his anger by kicking his dog or by picking a fight with his wite. The vast majority of valves to release our there are some, and we of Ihem, who because they are psychotics are nn Dcllcd to react in ways that are dangerous to society: by driving at maniac speeds, by planting bombs in Sunday schools, by making obscene telephone calls or writing ing on a particular group, race or religion, as ob jects of intense hatred. WITH Jack Ruby there is less opportunity for the amateur psychologist to muck around. And at least in his case the motives which lead him to gun down Oswald will be explored in detail at his trial at some time in the near future. But isn't there something of the gangland "code of honor" in his act? Isn't the gangster's mentality and eye-for-an-eye morality evident? Doesn't it seem reasonable that he imagined himself the nation's avenger, that by shooting Oswald, he could in some way even up the score? It even seems plausible that he felt a kind of brutish gallantry in sparing Mrs. Kennedy a possible appearance at Oswald's trial. The epithet he shouted at Oswald before he shot him would be consistent with such a hypo thetical construction. COR a long- time to come, at least until the final blue ribbon committee report is released, there will be conflicting stories ami rumors. Many are already floating around: That Oswald had an accomplice and that two silhouettes were seen bv someone at that - sixth floor window. . . 1 hat there is a and Kuby, and mat tne lornier was rubbed out because it was feared he was starting to crack under the interrogation. That the Dallas police and, or the district attorney are suppressing various mysterious pieces of evidence that could clear the whole matter up in an instant. That Oswald signalled Ullby with a ''look'n,gr:ims ami commentators to lean forward and shoot detectives escorting Oswald deliberately made no effort to protect him. IT is unutterably sad that the President should have been cut down in the very prime of his life by a madman who even lacked the dignity of a cause. Ii ., o..,l.,..., .,..) , 1V cu.iicttuv. u desperately senseless, aild tlUS IS part Ol tlie nil- potent rage we all lecl. Mien a great me snouiti nave oeen lost 1 it had to DC lost HI fjilisi' (if some kind that it v, not from a bullet meaning by a lurking sniper, l,et US HOW resolve, 1'iln IVnorlunf ' ffirltw pniirnn-n vtill t'rrwli in mir 1 . f 'YIUL", . B , "feL lm , , , u ' ' milldS, to resist I lie impUL-e lO SCe a Shadow link- illg behind every tree, and to imagine a wide- murine master nlot w here noiiP nrobablv 1 I 1a run I ,U,MUV : 9Xlsien. U.n.n. foreign press, as well as here at home, we do not until evidence to the in both instances of view anything but s government, and liov. the Marine corps. he squeezed the trigger, us find routine safety- pent up floatations. But submit uswaici was one filthy letters, or by fix .... I,, i i r i i link between Oswald hnu, or that the Dallas 'ira "", t fighting for a Worths' , would benefit hiiniim. fired without purpose or with the niemorv of our "It's Terrible How Intolerant People Are Getting" ...Communications... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication mutt not eaceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Hoeing Deal Shaky To the Editor: Much has been written about the Boardman Project. Some of it is truthful, some of it is untruthful and some of it is half truthful. A recent editorial in the morning Oregonian discussed Rep. Mosscr's idea of taking a million dollars from the Veter an's Fund Profits for invest men in the Boardman - Boeing Project. The editorial indicated that the holders of the Veteran's Fund Bonds might be concerned over the "shaky" nature of the Boardman - Boeing Project un der the Boeing lease and look unfavorably upon this type of investment. Of course, since the editorial, the money being talk ed about is now two million, not one million. This could add to the "shakincss" of the deal. 1. You and I know that the lease which Ihc 1D61 session was asked to ratify is not the same lease that the State Land Board signed with Boeing. For in stance the original lease did not include an exclusive right to Boeing for BM: miles of valuable walcrtront. You and I know that the 19(11 lease provided that Boe ing pay some $250,000 for mov ing the Navy installation and (he "new" lease provides lliat the cost be paid for by the State of Oregon. 2. You and I know that the Land Board, consisting of the Governor. Secretary of State and State Treasurer, obligated the Slate of Oregon to the extent of $02,000 without authority to do so. 3. You and I know that the Boeing lease guarantees no in crease in land value for tax purposes for 77 years. 4. You and I know that be cause the Boeing lawyers ques- tioned the constitutionality of the lease, the Governor and ins staff came to the special ses sion to bail them out of a jam. 5. You and I know that Secre tary of Slate Appling testified before the Ways and Means Comittee of the special session ! and said that he wished "he had ; had no part in the Boeing Lease.' fi. You and I know that Warne Nunn, the Governor's assistant, leslified that, without Boeing. Boardman was of hieh value and was a good investment (or the slate of Oregon. 7. HB 1014 ratifies the Boeing lease, the biggest giveaway in the historv of the stale ot Ore- u- .,, ;. i ;n , gon. Vie will vote aga ns( it in , L best interests oAhe people : Ul Ull'Ull. 8. We believe (hat as the odi tor of one of the leading news- Papers in Oregon, it is your duly ,lLTi?toi?n 1 mS lease and print H in us civ tiroty so that the people of Ore- gon mav Know me lacis. Sen. Albert G. Flegol Rep. Sidney I.cikcn Roseburg, Ore. Cnnininn Sense To the Editor: What has hap pened lo good common sense? t'l... ..I. ...1... ...... nil i. n,c turned over to blaming all ot society (or Ihc actions of the man who killed President Ken ncdy? Seems to me because ore crackpot gets loose with a rifle there's no need to say such thines as "being ashamed to be an American" or "Texan." etc. That person (Oswald! is to blame, not ALL of America. I think generally we are not cxnectinc each person lo be responsible for his own actions. ,,. ....,.... ............ , I We have let psychology get mix- ed up into everything. Sob sis - iters sav it's a person's early childhood, his environ m e n i. I what somebody else said or did. I anything and everything is said rather than say a person should he held responsible for his own behavior. Our country was not founded on irresponsibility, Each of us have to he rcsnonsi- wP for OCR own action or there " haos , Wo AKK N0T brothers' keepers, except to this extent: j Adults are here to gule chil-1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. drcn. We adults must instill a sense of right and wrong, a sense of responsibility in our children. They must know and understand that they are re sponsible for what they do, not society, not some past unpleas ant experience from their child hodd, and so on. We have many men in our country that have risen to the heights of their chosen field from poverty and with all odds against them. Some people (most people) don't have that drive and a few go off the deep end. But we can not permit all of America to be indicted when one American does a murder. True, this murder was the Pres ident of the United States. But he was just a man. Nobody livce forever and if it had not been Mr. Kennedy's time to go, then he would have escaped as Gov. Connally did. I would like to recommend a book for the readers of your paper title, "1(184" by George Orwell. For this past week has made me think of this book many times for the radio, TV and people's reaction have been straight from the pages of "MM." I know It was most tragic, the shooting of our President. We tend to think of that sort of thing happening in South Amer ica or other countries overseas, but not in our civilized United States. But that four day orgy put on by all our radio and television stations was exactly as in "1984." And now most all radio and TV is busy beating the drums trying to pin this on the right wing, or as "1984" would have it, this is "hale the richt wing" week, even though it's known to all that Oswald was a Marxist, an admirer of Castro, an admirer of Russia. What gives with people? It's like the fable of the king s! rolling down the street with no clothes. But no one wanted to be the one to upset the applecart by daring to sneak the truth. What has happened to Amcr- Ua. that a spade is not a spade anv more" Mrs. Robert E. Ellis P. O. Box 304 Rogue River Ore. Had Fun To the Editor: I am one ot the members of the Security Benefit Club who attended the ttcocKan ann uao renows Den- , . . . . "cc CentralSa, the club meeting Wednesday where approximately 150 of us had a lovely Thanksgiving din ner, and an afternoon of danc ing. At each of these places a period of silent prayer for our departed President was observ ed. I do not feel that any dis respect was shown. On television 1 followed his journey from the White House to the Capitol and from the Capitol to Arlington National Cemetery. I grieved with his jut" '. Kj " ' , ' . , . T . . acne sue caiiieu 111 nrr ncaii. As for the dance, 1 certainly did not see anyone "whooping it up. And we did have tun. Mrs. l.ealha Jones Box 3117 Gold Hill, Ore. Wishes fur Railrnads To the Editor: Subject: ter to Santa Claus. Let- Dear Uncle Santa Sam: My Christmas wish is for a safe (,, n k..iij,. train trip hi o,l,,,, u,.,..,. ... ........o, travelers. Too olten. weather, 1 climate and over-crowded high- jwavs turn holiday reunion into tracedv. For our busy airlines we wish a generous portion of railroad style self reliance. Thev have much too long worn the subsi- dized infant industry diapers of lax - free public airports, free traffic control and air mail sup- port. Their service is important enough to pay its way without ' half the fare coming out of the taviWs pocket. , W e wish a long vacatpn to OREGON Foreign News: New Possible in Notes from the foreign news cables: Berlin Crisis: If the Soviets are to test the new U. S. administration's de termination over Berlin, the guessing in West Berlin is that it will not come before January. The German winter usually re stricts large scale troop move ments. However, some time In January a battalion of about 1, 100 men stationed in Berlin is expected to exchange duties with another battalion now in West Germany. This will mean a week-long scries of convoys in both directions over the Auto bahn, with possibilities of a Rus sian challenge on control pro cedures. Changes: London gossip columnists are claiming that U. S. Ambassador to London Dave Bruce may re tire and be replaced by Mc George Bundy. There is no official confirma tion in either American or Brit ish quarters of this suggestion. the staffs of the government's airline coddling agencies, i t s waterway pork barrel stuffers and its super - highway empire builders. They have been work ing too hard at the taxpayer's expense. All this adds up to my wish for the railroads equality of opportunity in accordance with our late President Kennedy's re peated transportation messages. K. Fritz Schumacher, Former Santa Fe "Rail" 81 West Grand View Ave. Sierra Madre, Calif. Proper Precautions To the Editor: Referring lo the brutal assassination of Pres ident Kennedy, I cannot help but feel that if the proper precau tions had been taken, this ter rible tragedy might not have occurred. In the first place, when the motorcade carrying the presi dential party moved through downtown Dallas, the President and Mrs. Kennedy were seated in the rear scat of an open lim ousine. It should have been clos ed, and if It had been President Kennedy might be alive today. It surprises me that the secret service men who were present permitted Kennedy to keep the limousine open, regardless of whether he preferred to have it open or not. In the second place, there were intense investigations of just about every place along the line that the motorcade traveled EXCEPT the building from which the shots were fired. Of course, it is not my place to blame anyone for careless- In the Day's News By FRANK Hijackers seized a twin-engine Venezuelan Convair on a do mestic flight, hurled pro-Communist leaflets over the city of Ciudad Bolivar and then forced Ihc crew to land the liner in Trinidad. This terrorist inci- dent came as police combed Caracas for Lieutenant Colonel James K. Chenault, a U. S. Army officer kidnaped by pro- Castro foes of Venezuelan Presi- dent Romulo Betancourt. Bomb blasts shook Bogota and other Colombian cities as Communists reacted a g a i n s i U.S.-Latin American maneuvers off the Colombian coast. 'pESTlXG out our new Presi 1 dent? Safe guess: There will be a lot of testing out of him to see how far it will he safe (o go. pilOM Washington: Some 350 Bible-carrying, sign-waving pickets paraded in ironl ol tne White House do mantling the return of the Rible and pravers to the public i schools The Thanksgiving Dav protest against (he Supreme Court's prayer decisions appar-i it- So he stripped off his clothes, ently was organized by religious waded out through the bone groups across the country. ! chilling water, found a handle In the cenler of the group. ' and pulled a door open, reached about 50 of the pickets carried inside, felt a human arm and a long banner bearing the In scription "We Want the Bible Back in the School Rooms of America." 1 AI AVBE Wf d bettfr Kcl 'his A' Supreme Court decision! . ... ,. . ' "iK"i m our minds, u is basod on the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an E S T A B 1. 1 S H- MENT of religion, or prohibiting the HtLL tXERClsb thereof: or (.bridging the freedom of speech or of the press: or the right ot the people peacefully to assemble and to petition the Government for redress of grievances " II doesn't PROHIBIT the reading of the Bible. It m'ely j January; The reports claim Bruce, who has been ambassador to Britain since 1961, feels he wants to re- tic silence, little doubt is left turn to private life. Bundy isUhat he would be welcome. Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris. (c) yield rnterprises. Inc. SEE OURSELVES The senseless murder of the President was a mirror we were forced to hold up to ouselves and we did not like, or believe, the image that we saw. "How could It happen here? In this day and age? In our country? I thought such things happened only in history. In Europe. . Somewhere else and long ago." These were the reactions of Americans. They bespoke a tre mendous ignorance and delu siveness about ourselves. For, as 1 have written many times in the past (and have been as sailed for so writing), we are a violent people who do not know the rang cand force of our prim itive feelings. Why should It happen here? The last three Presidents out of four have had assassination attempts on their lives. No where in Europe is this true: In most such countries, the chiefs of state walk about virtually unguarded. In this day and age? This Is the age of the most feroci ous war the world has ever known, the most bloody dic tatorships, the gas ovens, the concentration camps, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a "peace-loving" nation. In our country? Why not, with our staggering homicide rale, our casual and callous auto fatalities, our shocking prevalence of firearms, our frontier relish for comhat anil conflict, our contempt for rnurls, our cynicism about the effectiveness of orderly processes. ness; yet It is evident that there was carelessness. Every right minded person is heartsick over this tragic event, and whether it might have been prevented or not had proper precautions been taken, It docs not alter the fact that there are individuals in this world against whom so ciety must protect itself so criminal minded that those in public life cannot lake the sligh test chance of not being per fectly safe against them any where. Lydia Burnham 814 Warne St. Proscott, Ariz. JENKINS prohibits a law REQUIRING the reading of the Bible. The Bible is Great Literature. No one can he anvthing but BETTER OFF for reading it. All the Supreme Court decision does is forbid COMPELLING , the people to read the Bible One fears that these pickets are crackpots of whom we have too many already. IT MIGHT not be a bad idea if more of our people as J a matter of information and I education would do some reading about the other great religions of the world such as Buddhism and Moham medanism. As literature, Ihey're far bet ter than a lot of the stuff that gets read these days. THE THANKSGIVING holi A day's strangest traffic ac cident: As a California highway pa trolman started up onto the Dumbarton bridge south of San r rancisco 1 nursday, he saw a car lying upside down in the shallow water. He had a hunch ! that somebody might be Inside s t a r t e d to pull out what he thought was a corpse. To his a m a z e m e n t. the "corpse" struggled out of his grasp, popped up out of the wa ter and began gasping for air. - MiUiT uin v. It .. " ..hicu. The car had skidd the bridge approach and I skidded off turned i over in the water When it turned over. it TRAPPED A POCKET OF AIR. By bending his head back, the driver was able lo breathe this air. It kept him alive until the cod came inlo the picture about 40 minutes after the accident. Truth sometimes IS stranger than fiction. II a fiction writer had imcnlcd that situation, his readers would have scoffed and sunt it was TOO Imaginative. Crisis in Berlin Changes Seen well known in London and while officialdom keeps diploma If anyone still doubts this, consider the cry of applause that went up from the crowd gathered outside (he Dallas jail when it learned that the presumed assassin of the President had himself been shot down. This reaction is, to me, more annalline and mnr rpvpalinf if," than anything else in the whole China later. French officials nightmare of the weekend. Here say he believes France could was a man not known for sure ' guarantee herself long-term to be the killer. He had not con- i economic prosperity by estab fessed, not been brought to I lishing outlets for French indus trial, not defended, not sen-1 exports in China. A main fenced. And he was killed while in the very hands of the police. And the crowd outside shout ed its approval of this bestial, stupid and irrational act. This is frightening, this is disgusting, this discloses the profound fail ure of our society to instill in its citizens any real sense of civili zation, any idea of the meaning of law and justice. This is what turns our country into little bet ter than a jungle. If this dreadful murder of a President makes us see our selves more clearly, makes us re-examine our feelings, makes us determine to purge the vio lence within each of us and all of us, it will not have been in vain. The Righteous Shall Destroy the Earth By Arthur Hoppe WASHINGTON - The day after the funeral was grey and cold. I was walking down Penn sylvania Avenue, aimlessly. In search, I suppose, of comfort. How very much we need com fort right now. For I think we are confused, uneasy, vaguely fearful of an infection among us. (How odd that rings.) President Johnson had quick ly ordered "a prompt and thor ough investigation" of the assas sination. Texas was naming a court of inquiry. Congressmen were demanding "a blue ribbon investigation" of their own. In the coming weeks, I knew, we would probe and examine and test and analyze. What was this infection? Was it spread ing? What was this growth? Was it malignant? We must be reassured There would be headlines and magazine stories and official re - ports and gradually, I supposed, an official storv would emerge and we would all be comforted and turn to something else. And 1 felt more uneasv than before. In that first terrible hour after the shooting. I remem- bcred how quick the liberals were to assume the assassins- lion a plot hv the radical right. "We really can't tnler- ate (hem any more." said one rational man 1 know, his eyes full of grief and anger and hatred. "Thev reallv must he wiped out.' The - assassin now appears to have been a memher of the left wing. And I feared how. alter (his period of mourning is over, the right wing would cry with equal haired and an ger (or the blood o( (he radical left. The picture came In my mind, as It often has these past few clays, of the killer himself with the rifle hult In Q. x "Jf-e -res There be a temporary rotation 0f artitlties during Ihli perlrj( of mourning" Labor Problems: A major earthquake miy bt building up for Italian labor unions. This could come about as result of a walkout of the strong pro - Communist wing from Socialist party ranks as result of the party decision to join the center-left government of Premier-Designate Aldo Mo ra. Communists now hold about 70 per cent of all key positions in the CGIL, which in turn con trols about half of Italian labor. A Socialist split would reducs the Socialist moderates of party leader Pietro Nenni to a small minority in CGIL ranks and might force them into quitting. It would post dramatic prob lems of allegiance for many members. New Look At Peking: President Charles de Gaulle is reported to have decided to send a full-time French eco nomic mission to Peking pos sibly as an opening wedge to ward full recognition of Kid stumping block: De Gaulle is net ready to sever relations with Chiang Kai-shek's Na tionalist China on Formosa, re garded as an inevitability in event of French diplomatic rec ognition of the Reds. Japanese Overhaul: Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda's I960 program to double the Japanese people's real in come in 10 years already has seen a 38 per cent jump in such income in less than three years. But it has shown weak spots in small farming, coal mining and in "infrastructure" such as roads, railroads, bridges and harbors. As result, the program probably will b over-hauled. Ills cheek, the target In his sights. How righteous he must have felt when he squeezed the trigger. How noble. How martyr-like. And I Ihouglit of Jack Ruby. How riglHcoiis he fell when ha squeezed the trigger. How superior. How like an aveng ing angel. And 1 never felt more strongly that the malig nancy on our fringes Is nol so much haired as righteous ness. For no man Is evil to him self. Ail men must justify what they do. And how easy this is for the righteous. a The radical right, in its right- T " ,u I 10 save us ,U 1 rom tne Communist conspir- I S, And the radical left, in its 1 rlRhlusness. would save us f.rom, "je CaP''a''s' exploitation, I ch .knows, 15 right Each , 's P?s'",ve of. hls cause. And the. i f0?? ?! cach are 'refore self. JU-mB' So if we are destroyed, it will hp hv ,nose who would protect us; " lhe worl(' is destroyed, it will be by those who would savg A" in a righteous cause, . But as 1 climbed Capitol Hill m the funeral grcyncss. I found the comfort I sought. It lay in the solid massive, granite and marble of the buildings in the serried columns of the Canilnl. in me pristine morality ol the Supreme Court. I felt, as I always do, how enduring our system is, how deep its roots. But I understood for the first time that its prime unction is to protect us from the righteous. For the heart of our American idea is that the majority will save itself. And I think it will. I think it will. For ! we, the people, are our only I hope.