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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. ""7iEveryano In Soutnern Oregon Keadi Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MtUfUKU fHlWlUMU J 3 North JirStPh7a-614l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertisinc Manaief GERALD T LATHAM, Bua Mr ERIC to ALLEN JR.. Mnc. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor uirrv phi PM AN. Tel en Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHEH Women'i Editoi DALE EHICKSON. Circulation Mar An Tnrifnfndpnt NewSDBDei Entered a tecond clasi matter at Medfora. urenon. unaer ivi w March 3, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n Ma.fl In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday moi 10 00 Dllv and Sunday 3 moi. 8 00 Sunday Only One year tS 00 Stride CoDy (Mailed, 0e ftg r -,,rtr And Motor ROUtff. Jflly and Sunday 1 year 21 00 Dailv and Sunda 1 mo 1.75 CnnHiv firilv 1 mn. S00 Carrtci endjendon Copy 10c Offtrlal Paper of City of Medfnrd Orllrlal i'aper W jacKicm uimiuj United Preua International lull Leased Wire U. P I. Telephoto Newspiciurea MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: nviW Rf.ftRRTS & ASSOC! ATES Of'lcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco, Loi Angnjva. Seattle, o r i u u Denver. Memner California Newspaper Publisher! Association Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from inn tiles nf The Mail Tribuno 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 17. 1953 (Thursday Medlord police officer Leo A. Mitchell catches two men in act of burglarizing store on South Riverside Avenue. Television station KBES-TV announced yesterday that as sembling of the BMi-ton five-bay antenna has started and it is expected to he hoisted in place about the middle of next week. 211 YEARS AGO Dec. IT. 11113 (Friday) Dec. 23 set for launching of SS Jacksonville at Kaiser ship yards in Portland; .ludRc J. B. Coleman. K. K. Kubli and Ben jamin Bookman to he honored guests. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smwluc Pot" column: "The shortest days of the year come this week, afler which it will be only six months to the long est ones." .10 YEARS A(iO Dec. 17. IM3 (.Sunday) Aaron Schollars, ft!), of Med ford, who drove a team at the Battle of Gettysburg, recover ing after lengthy illness. George Porter and T. E. Dnn fels "rlenn up" in annual Mcd ford Gun Club turkey shoot. in YEARS AGO Dor. 17, 1923 (Monday) F. Wilson Wait, director of Mcdford's DOOK hand, receives offer of similar post at La Grande. Modioli! High School basket ball coach "Prink" Callison names starting team nf Knips, Chaslain, Allen and Williams, with litlh still to be selected. ;,n YEARS AGO Ore. 17, 191.1 (Wednesday) C. Wig Ashpole leaves (or Porlland with a shipment of cattle which he plans to market there. Miss Lenoir Godlove elected president of Christian Endeavor group l Christian Church. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct It luperior; seven or vighl it excellent; live or sis it good. 1. In what document are the qualiiu-alions for President and Vice President of the U. S. set forth'' 2. What famous monument in Egypt has Ihe body of a lion with a human head? 3. What is Ihe name of the lasl honk in the Old Testament'.' I In what city is the principal edition of Ihe Wall Slicet Jour nal published'.' S. "Green Mountain Slate" is Uie nickname of which slate? 6 Pure lard is made from cottonseed oil: true or false'.' 7. Who succeeded Henry A. Wallace in the office ol Vice President? 8. Will a hoard bend more readily if It is hot or cold? 9. In how many bouts did Joe Louis defend his heavyweight title? III. Would the roll's nf civil procedure most likely be used by a lawyer, hostess, or diplo mat? Answers: I. Constitution. :. Sphinx. 3. Malarhi. 4. New York Uly. 5. Vermont, A. False. 7. Harry S. Truman. A. Hot. . 25. to. Lawyer. 4 A- Si-ASOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL DECEMBER 17, 193 Brothers Keeper? We believe in foreign aid, in spite of the fact that one can't buy meaningful friendship with dollars. We believe we should help underdeveloped nations move into the 20th Century world for both selfish and unselfish reasons. Peace and stability probably aren't possible in a world in which some nations are very rich and others are very poor. And so we must help these nations to develop their people and other resources if we can expect to live together peace ably in this world community. IVIOREOVER, we ought to help our fellow man simply because he needs help and we can afford to give it. We ought to be willing to help those in need for the same reason "we are willing to tax ourselves to help the unfortunates within our own nation. We recite these arguments as background for an interesting set of facts recently published by the United Nations. Outside aid provided to the world's poorer nations now averages about $6 billion per year, the UN has announced. More than half of this comes from the United States, by far the rich est nation in the world. We provide help for 81 nations, but 80 per cent of our foreign aid dol lars go to 20 countries. The Soviet Union pro vides far less help about .$400 million to 29 nations, it was estimated. 1XE DON'T quite know what to conclude from " ' these figures. The American share of the total isn't sur prising. Some other nations provide a larger share of their national income for foreign aid, but we are so rich that we still dominate thei picture. Nevertheless, we Lions to help more than Perhaps the most small size of the total. Six of money. But its a drop in the bucket in terms of total world wealth. And it's doubtful if it's anywhere near enough to help the poorer nations get off the ground. If man is his brother's keeper, then there's room for better keeping. Capital Journal, Salem. Out of Character The Oregon Division League of America has stop all Oregon commercial fishermen from catching fish in the Columbia, River. 11 is ire- narinor a haunt. meiiRiivp. issuance of licenses for fish, commercially, in the Columbia, and wouldUegRn by arRiiing against an prohibit the processing, in Oregon, ol lish caught i in the river, whether caught by Oregon residents) 1 noi. ... M'-' ury Douglas Dillon made Washington eillnet fishermen would slill be'lhe counter - argument, for able to fish the Columbia. Fish So caught COtlld K- I . ((nivionu ill i.-.iiii;iifii. miv mi unuil. SS irn im be a near death-blow to and residents along the lower reaches of the river. This is probably the most consistently-depressed area, economically speaking, in the state to begin with. Such a move is out of character for the League. rpilE Izaak Walton League has been one of the nation's most valuable conservation organ izations. It has long (might tor in water supplies, not K..i e 1 1 :...!........ 1, 1 1 - 11.- uia 1111 puopie aim iiiuumi.x. 11 n;ts necii 111 me lore! rout against various upon national resources. Rut the Oregon division, in this instance, is attempting just what the national organization U.... I.,,,., i, .;.,. i.. ,.i i m.i.-s ,wmK imiu m .m.uiii nil. i ne wiepui unmp ,,,,, Sm)()R(1 m p(,rson , ,hjs is trying to put one group mil ol business at the entertaining but far from value expense of another. Hiologists see no need forlpss operation, the President's I i . .! , e; i : ,1 n chief lieulenant has necessarily nci eased escapements ol mature fish in the Co-1,,,,,,, Sm.ctal.v n( Mmce ,;. lunima. ( losing the river to commercial lishmg ert McNamara, whose depart onlv from one side, would not help if such es- mon absorbs the lion's share of ...iii'nm,i,.io ,,,,,,, I,. 1 each year's Federal outlays. If, 'lllllll,.-i u i II, S ,11,1. The Oregon group a nog m tne manger initiative. If should not with it. The Bulletin, Whistle Ordinarily a train derailment matter. But papers in A Hut nv am f:,,,i .,,,., ;,,,.,i illinium .-Muur 1 1 1 , 1 1 i 1 1 r 1 1 1 near Marion. Because the tracks were blocked,! the SB's Cascade was routed through Corvallis. I That marked the first time in id years that1 a tnainliner had gone through Cmvallis. And; that's a long time between trains. The occasion! for the train in Corvallis Id years ago w as a flood which sent the witter of the Santiam over its! banks. j Whal kind of a cata.-trophe would it have! to be before a niainliner would acain visit Ko.-e-! burg, Grants Bass and Mcdford? Eugene Register-Guard. Constructive Proposal A maker of foundation garments, in conjunc tion with U.S. Rubber Co., lias developed a fiber with a stretch factor of 700 per cent. It is ex tremely light-weight. It can be made into a yarn so thin that a pound of it can be stretched for 10.0 miles, .lust the thing out of w hich paychecks should be made, Oregon Statesman, Salem. should urge other na- they nave. disturbing factor is the billion dollars is a lot of the Izaak AValton taken it upon itself to which would stem t.hn Oretron residents to catch MM ... ..1 I the Oregon communities improvements onlv for fish and name special interest ranis .re mm,.. .. of the 1WLA ;. is pulling its proposed! stunt witti us prop be allowed to get away Rend. Stop i is HO laughing I Corxallis are :,. , i ... o. . . , in it irii'iu derailment , "Keep Christmai In Your Own Way And Let Me Keep It In Mine" president scrooge WASHINGTON Much can he learned about American poli tics and much ironical amncnmnnt fin nlvi, ho nhlllin. i from close observation of President Johnson's attack upon the budget, under the sacred banners of "thrift and frugal ity." For sheer drama, is al most equals the battle of San Juan Hill. The motive of all this public cutting and slashing must above all be borne in mind. The Presi dent feared from the first that he could not drive the creaking Congress to rapid action on the ' civil rights Din. nence ne cany decided to try for a partial con solation prize, in Ihe lorm o. (airly prompt action on the lax reduction bill. The link between tax reduc tion and the 19M budget, so long insisted upon by Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, was the cen tral point in the new President's first White House meeting on budgetary problems. Budget Director Kermit Cordon and tne ma" Council t Eco- nv('''y ''fi'vl budget. kcretary V the Treas which, one may reasonably sus- had hoOll wmline "You can either have a budget over $1111.5 bil lion," Dillon said in effect you can have $11 billion of tax reduclinn. But you can't have both." Even Walter Heller thereupon replied that, if this was the real situation, he, too, opted (or a tight budget. After that, unani mity prevailed throughout the Administration. And the Presi dent was then safely able to promise Sen. Byrd an advance peck at the budget, in return I for a reluctant promise by Byrd to send Ihe tax bill from Ihe Ki-! ,.,. committee to the Senate floor Next came the grand altack which upon "needless spending has filled the headlines almost as though it were an old-fashion- ed cavalry rnarge led ny I'resi- piiF. v s,an aluahle part of Ihe erand allack s.is !hr Pros, iilonl'c Hnrisinn In hnrlf hie S-. relary of Defense in making a long series of overdue econo- mics in Defense Department operations, bv losing all sorts of obsolete military bases and installations all over the United Slales This is the luirrlesl Ihine to do in politics. The Boston ""Pe Walk survived for nearly ccnuirv alter tne l . s .avv "lines. It seem In yon people the Kennedy trisedy, or 1) MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop le) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate converted from sail In sleam, and the Rnstnn Navy Yard sur vives Inday for precisely the same reasons. McNamara had in fad pin posed Ihe same economies to President Kennedy. Rut Presi dent Kennedy had not felt able to back his Defense Secretary in this instance, since President Kennedy was no longer in the happy position of a brand-new occupant of the White House, from whom every single Sena tor and Representative hopes for some favor or other. President Johnson, of course, ls jn just this position. Further- more, he judged that the gain in Congress from a strong econ omizing gesture would more than outweigh Ihe loss caused by the outraged feelings of the aenaiors anci isciuc.suiiiduvu.s whose states and districts were losing local sources of profit and employment. President Johnson even ap proved the suppression of a small military in Georgia, the hitherto untouchable state of the chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services Com mittees. And this, as someone in the Pentagon remarked, was "like closing Ihe angels' choir loft up in heaven." w THE howls of the economy- pinched lawmakers ( most of whom howl about "too much Federal spending" every other day of the year) are now so deafening that you can hardly hear yourself think in the U. S. Capital. Yet the President's judgment about the political timing of these useful savings seems In have been correct. Some real economies have also been made in personnel, and in other areas as well. Fi nally, it must be added, paper savings are being made, in the best manner of improvident householders, by deferring f-veninauy unavomanie spend ing on maintenance ana me use, both in the Defense Department and in other departments. This budget will not quite equal some of the budgets pre pared by the great corporate executives of (he Eisenhower administration, who would base a lot of I rouble with Ihe Securi ties and Exchange Commission if they handled their compa nies' accounts as they handled the Federal accounts. Rut the 14 budget will have its ele ment nf fakory, all the same. Roth the drama and Ihe fak- erv are in the American politi-! cal lr:i(Mlinn and Ihes1 will nrnluihlv nrnHnce I hi. Hesirnrl practical result - which is sim-, plv In pass the tax bill reason-1 alily soon Ycl Ihe irony of all1 this remains uncomfortably mv ticeahlc. in a country that might well solve the obstinate prob- lim nf ism-nrtv in thn mirlst nf affluence by spending no more than the sum annually spent on cosmetics alone are niier to fjrh other since II Jnst the Christmas. eson?" OREGON Chinese Intensify Drive in Africa With Soviet Union Serving By PHIL NEWSOM LTI Forelrn Newi Analyst In April. 1955, in Bandung, In donesia, 29 nations met for what Indonesian President Su-1 karnn called "the first inter eon ' lental conference of the so called colored peoples in the history of mankind." It also marked (he beginning nf Red China's determined drive to extend its influence beyond Asia and to the emerging new nations of Africa. In Ihe last two years, as the Soviet Union and Red China have h me more deeply em broiled in their ideological war, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear th name and address of Ihe writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication (s permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of rSaj paper. In fact the contrary ll often the case Birds. Fish, Turtles To the Editor: Arriving In Rrittany one sunset al a way side inn, dinner was skylark pie. We objected eating sweet songsters. Our host said: "You refuse. That does not put them back singing in the sky!" We nevertheless ate only potatoes. Latin countries lack Saxon land's love of birds. We move at snail's pace "South-of-the-Rio Grande," trying to conserve our migrants there. We ourselves once did but little better. When p.-ssenger pigeons were a dime-a-dozen in pioneer Chicago, pigeon pie was cheap. Go to the land ot nusn pup pies, of catfish frys. Cross Dix ie to proceed through Cuba s royal palm forest to Batahano sponge fishery. There they serve you fish cooked in paper hags, with a dessert of lsle-of-Pines fresh pineapple, dripping with "pine" honey. You then will slill hear of dishes based on grr turtle. Fished to near extinction. Na tional Parks now save these toothsome turtles. Virgin Islands National Park recently planted 1,200 babies. Each can grow to half a ton. One Dixie university hatched 20,000 eggs. When undersigned last was In Everglades National Park, a friend suggested calling on a banana fleet owner. His first question was turtles. "I keep one boat on turtles. We catch them on Central America hanks. When a darky catches one, he flops it on its back, marks his sign and the date. We corral them in a Caribbean island close to Florida. Sometime, one es capes. He then worked his way over seafloor back to his home, 7110 miles away. This skipper knows the turtle has no compass es. Do your books tell? Scientists still have much to learn. Above 1,200 baby tur tles, however, are growing. Those 20,000 eggs are given care. U.S.A. further has self - guiding UNDERSEAS nature trail with bright colored corals in Virgin Islands National Park. A high Washington official, un derwater in skindiving outfit, cut the ribbon while brilliant tropical fish kept their thoughts to themselves. C. M Coclhe, rr.tl Tenth St., Sacramento, IK, Calif. Mrs. Kennedy' Aid To the Editor: Please accept my lhanks for your editorial. "On Honoring JFK." in your Dec. 12 issue. You have ex pressed much heller than I could mv feelings on this sub- 'r'c1' a feeling 1 believe is by many thousands of snared OUr ICIIOW ClllZCnS. Marry KOaS- oncl' on s '' als0 voiced "1,s thought. There is another point in this connecimn i siuuun uise 10 nuns up. the Mail Iribune carried a news story about a proposal by one or more of our Congressmen to present a bill granting large sums of money to Mrs. Kennedy as an expression of Ihe nation's love and admiration for her. I share those feelings. Neverthe less, it is generally accepted as fact that John Fitzgerald Ken nedy was the recipient, from his father, of sums totalling not less than ten million dollars ($10. inxi.mxn. which presumably goes to his wife and children Cannot our feeling for Mrs Kennedy take shape in niher forms Ihan money which assur edly she docs nol need and j equally assuredly, the rank and file of taxpayers do need F. C. Foster Trail, Ore. O Editor's note: According to law-, all Presidents' widows are entitled to SIO.OOO per year, plus the franking ifrce mailing) privilege In addition. Congress voted s.'sfl.000 for Mrs Ken nedy's office expenses for one year only, lo handle Ihe hun dreds of thousands nf letters and telegrams she has received since her husband's death. Also. Secret Service protection is he ms provided her and her chil dren for the period of a scar, i I.V -0 o the Chinese have intensified their drive in Africa, with the Soviet Union a major target and with the difference in the colors of men's skins noted at Bandung a major weapon. At the third Afro-Asian soli darity conference held in Mo shi, Tanganyika, in February of this year the head of the Chi nese delegation told Soviet rep resentatives "the whites have nothing to do here." At a meeting of journalists in Jakarta, the Chinese sought to bar Soviet participation on the grounds that the Soviet Union is not an Asian country. As the Chinese have pressed their claims to being the only j true friends of black Africa, they have referred contempts nusly to the Russians as "white" and "European", and have stressed the solidarity of yellow and black races against colonialism. Clean Right Hand To the Editor: Referring once more to the brutal assassination of President Kennedy, as every one who is sensitive to Ihe po 1 i t i c a 1 implications nf such crimes now knows, Oswald claimed to have been a "Marx ist" a claim to which, if guilty, his bloody crime gave Ihe lie, for true Marxists know that Marxism and deeds of indi vidual violence are absolutely antithetical, mutually repellent. Nevertheless, malignant minds among capitalist apologists im agined they saw an opportunity for exploiting the tragedy to denigrate Marxism and to set off a new witchhunt. But this is lflBn, not lflOl, when President McKinley was assassi nated by the anarchist Czolgosz, and when "anarchism" and "So cialism" were mixed in the pub lic mind. Today the mood of reasoning Americans is one thai recoils from whitchhunts. Today there is one party the Socialist Labor Party that can hold up a clean right hand, a hand with the taint nf no man's blood on it, and say that murder is wrong under all circum stances. The Socialist violates no principle and does not play the hypocrite when he enndrmns the assassination nf President Kennedy. I.vdia Rurnham 814 Warne SI. Prescolt, Ariz. flieelings From Turkey To the Editor: How we miss the Mail Tribune over here in Turkey. Having the paper sent air mail is prohibitive, as far as cost is concerned, and it would be a month old before we re ceived it by boat, so we con tinue to miss it. Turkey is a land of great con trasts, modern in some ways and very backward in others. Modern cars, oxcarts and little 1 pack burros all travel the cob- bleslone streets here in Sam- sun. Samsun is on the Black Sea ,md has a population of about 90.000 people. Open markets with many fruits and vegetables are avail able, but of course we miss our supermarkets. Bread is sold un wrapped, in bread stores, and has to he carried home uilhout wrapping unless you supply your own. Mmnsl all the Turkish people! you talk to would like to go In Ihe Inited Stales to he, espe - riaiiv tne young people. We are having a great exper ience here, teaching under the ruinrignt program, hut as case. Christmas approaches we are just a little lonely (or friends TJOW did thev come lo do it? anfl family. ! 11 As (njs is writte-n, it hasn't 'I here is no observance nf con 0a Thanksgiving and Christmas in! But it 'scems ,0 h(, anothr.r his Islam land (except on the ' 0, misspcnt lives-fooling L. S. military bases) and w e around with evj, or good.(or. cannot so much as purchase a nolhinR characlcrs inslead of Ihnsimas card. I traveling the straight and nar We would like to lake this on-: " r...n.. porluni.y to wish all our friend of the Rocue River Vallev a wonderful Christmas and a New Year filled with happiness. That is. if this Idler makes the com munications column. Victor W. Hay and family Maarif Koleii Samsun, Turkey Promotions Announced By Company Officer Capl Donald W, Johnson. Granls Pass, commander. Com pany E. has announced several promotions in the unit. They are: to SSgt. iE-f) Jerry E Hull. Giants Pass: to Sgt. (E-5) Donald G. D i m m i c k. Grants Tass, Paul D. Lofland. Adrian E. Slanfield, Norman G. M.sek. Central Toml. Robert .1 James. Talent, and Gary W. Smith. Mcdford. ('apt Robert D. M u r p h y, Central Point, commander, Company F, announced Ihe pro motion nf Dary M, Mcdford, lo Sgt. (E-5) Johnson, as Major Target I Pressing the Chinese case in Africa with personal visits this week are Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi, first stop the flag decked streets of Cairo. One objective is an attempt to undermine Soviet influence in personal conferences. Another is to press for an other Bandung-type conference. Red Chinese newspapers have been stressing the need for "solidarity and mutual suoDort - """ spirit." There could he no solace for the free world if either the com- 'munism of revisionist Russia or orthodox China should take root in Africa. But tragic consequences of an entirely different sort would be the result if the Chinese were to be successful in their at tempts to divide the world be tween while and colored. At least the early stages of Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) Field EnterpriFM. Ina, LOOKING AHEAD One nf the men most often named as a great prophet of the twentieth century was H. G. Wells. In his numerous hooks around the turn of the century, he quite accurately predicted many nf the latest develop mets in science and technol ogy. Yet il is interesting that even so imaginative and speculative a thinker as Wells, who so clear ly saw the shapes of things to come in manyareas, had his own gigantic blind spots. In his book, "Anticipations," wrilten in 1901 and giving pre dictions of things to happen be fore the year 2000, Wells wrote: "I have said nothing in this chapter, devoted to locomotion, of the coming invention of flying . . . I do not think it at all prob able that aeronautics will ever come in many areas, had his modification nf transport and communication . . ." And. little further along In the same chapter, he wrote: "I must confess that my Imagination . . . refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything hut suffocate Its crew and founder at sea." This, mind you, was not some rigid traditionalist, hut (he most daring rxtra-pnlatnr nf his times, much of whose brilliant "science - fiction" turned into fact before his own rleath. If so prescient a man as Wells himself could not antici In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, the FBI, working swiftly and secreUy, has broken the Sinatra kidnap case six days after it happened. Three men have been arrested and most of the $240,000 of ran som money had been recovered. That's quick work. V7HO did it? ' ' Well, the arrested ones are a 42-year-old house painter with a long record of minor offenses, including drunk and disorderly conduct and assault and battery. A 23-year-old salesman and fnrmer classmate of young ' Frank Sinatras sister Nancy. A former hnxer with three pre vious arrests, one including tres passing and i minor alcohol : Z Z "3 r somewhere worth getting to It didn't pay off. Under the Lindbergh kidnaping act, they face life imprisonment. If they had harmed their victim, they could have faced the death pen alty, which a jury may recom mend if the victim of a kidnap ping is harmed. rVHK moral of it? Well, if all criminals could be caught lhat quickly, there would be less crime. For two reasons The number of evil doers would be rapidly reduced and new recruits wouiri be pre vented from entering the crime business. It's preltv well agreed that CERTAINTY OF P U N I S H MENT is the most dependable rrime deterrent U'HAT of Ihe FBI" " How did il get started1 HMtE Federal Bureau of Invest- 1 igation (FBI) is on of the branches of the U.S. Department of Justice. Its agents track down violators ot ait tederal laws v- : Chois tour were less success- ful than he might have hoped. President Nasser who was to have greeted him, was away in Tunisia. The Cairo newspaper Al Gum houria noted that one of Chou'J aims would be to try to end the "virtual international isolation" growing out of Sino-Indian bor der fighting "which showed China as the aggressor." Nor are the new African na tions quite so unsophisticated as the Chinese seem to hope. Last February's Tanganyika conference left many deleu i- tlons anSn at the thought lhat j the Red Chinese had used Ihem i simply as a cover for an allack upon the United States and an aitempt to present these at tacks as representing the vnicn of Africa. It led to this cold conclusion by Tanganyika Minister of Home Affairs Oscar Kamhona: "We are not going to accept the enemies chosen for us by i others.' pate (in a book called "Antici pations"!) the tremrnrintis Impact nf the airplane or the devastating power of the suit marine, how ran we ordinary mortals have any conception nf what the next decade may bring us? And, since his time, the rale of acceleration has increased a ' hundredfold: not only is there more change today, but the rain of change has been speeded up to a dizzying degree. It is start ling to realize the fact that !io , per cent of all scientists who ; ever existed are alive today. What is frightening ahnul a future war, and what makes it ' so unfeasible from every point ' of view except the suicidal, is that gi-.-rnments have become the sorcerer's apprentices. Sci- ence is the sorcerer, which moi o or less knows what it is doing " and can control ils experiments; but governments use science for their own purposes, and are not wise or disciplined enouch In i be able to control all the possi ble results. We cannot know what I lie next ; decade will bring in terms i f mass destruction, any m n 1 u than Wells could know how i' -cisive the airplane would tic i modern transport and warfare. . All we can know is that the in tcnlialities for annihilation of liin human race far outrun our ca pacity for survival, and lhat lh sorcercr is becoming Ihe vic tim of his power-mad appren- ' tices. JENKINS cept those which are enforced hy other departments, such as the Treasury and the Post Office. ' The Bureau searches for en-: emy fgents and others who; threaten the nation's security, ! It also tracks down kidnapers, : automobile thieves and other criminals who violate federal laws. Its agents are given courses in law enforcement,: crime detection and similar mat ters when they enter the depart ment. r1HE FBI has a laboratory in -- Washington with complete modern equipment for analyzing ' clues scientifically. It also has ' fingerprint files lhat rnnlain more than 100 million sets nf " fingerprints. Its work is rallied t on through 52 field divisions in : the U.S. ; It has a dedicated leader J. ' Edgar Hoover, who was named ; its director in 1924 four decades , ago. He has developed the FBI into one of the world s most . efficient law enforcement agrn-:; cies. When he came on the job, he replaced untrained men wilh lawyers and experienced ac countants, established new de partments for training, scl up a central fingerprint file and he. gan studies of scientific crime detection methods He made the FBI inln an in stitution that is respr-rled and admired all over the wmld 4 THOUGHT in conclusion. 1 The federal government in these days seems often to bo reaching for authority over mni o and more of the affairs lhat (or merely were reserved (or th states and the counties and ihe cities and the villiages. The schools, for example, which it is seeking increasingly to (i. nance knowing that where th money comes from the authority will reside. Might it not he heller if we kept the federal government out nf schools but invited it In lake n INCREASING share in ih detection and prevention of crime? Crime is getting to be nnr n( our big problems. We could usi some help in preventing ij o o