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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, MZDFOROtwTRIBUNt "Everyone In Southurn Oregon Raadi The Mill Trlbuna" Published DaUy except Saturday by MEDrORD PRINTING CO 33 North fir St., Ph, 77il-6l41 ""ROBERT W RUHJU Editor ?1ERB GREY Adverttilnf Manauer liERALD T LATHAM, But Mgr ERIC v. ALLEN JR.. Mni! Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N. Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHEH Womena Edltoi DALE BRICKSON, ClrculallonMtr An Independent Newapapel Entered aa aecond claaa matter at Mediord. Oregon under Act ol March 3, 1B07 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance ., Daily and Sunday 1 yearSlSOO Daily and Sunday 8 moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. SOU Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Malledl l'c By Carrier And Motor Route. Lially and Sunday I year 2 Tally and Sunday 1 mo. J. Sundiy Only I mo. Carrier andVendori Jopyjoc Official pVper of City of Medford Olllrlal paper OI Jacaiun vim.j United Pre International lull LeaseJ Wire U. P 1 Telephqto Newspleturea "m'EMBFRTOF AUDIT BUREAU Ol um.m,anva Advertlains R.prntnll l: .,.-, cx, Dr.DrnTQ Jtf ASSOC1. AXES Ol'lcea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San franclsco. Loj Ar,i;elea. Seattle, roriiooo Denver. NEWSAI PUtllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Member California Newipaper PnoJahera AltoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tn files or Th Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1953 (Tuesday) Mercy Flights air amulance plane carries its 200th patient. Miss Colleen Hope left Sunday by plane for Redding, Calif., where she will visit with Miss Palsy White, formerly of this city. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1913 (Wednesday) Medford Elks lodge held a "mortgage burning" ceremony celebrating the end of 29 years of indebtedness for construc tion ot its temple. . From Aruthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Cnpl. E. U. (Eddie) Dumo sends word (rom England ho and LI. Col. (Cannonball) Jackson met in London, and jolly well had a ripping time. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1933 (Friday) Bernie Hughes, former Med ford High and University of Oregon football player, listed as tentative starter in annual East-West Shrine game at San Francisco. Local markets offer ' sirloin steak or T-bone at BVi cents a pound, beef roasts at 6 cents a pound and six pounds of ham burger for 25 cents. 40 YEARS AGO Tire. 29, 11123 (Saturday) Medford bureau tops state In number ot automobiles regis tered with a total of 7,774; Port land was second with 7,2111. Jackson County Republicans sent congratulations to hen. Charles McNary after his mar riage to his former secretary in Chicago. .',0 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1913 (Monday) A group of young Talent men mvoio out u complaint in police court asserting that they were bilked out of $llt in a due game. lv W. Miller arrived from California to serve as fish oil tuialisl on the Rogue River. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten cotreel it tuperior; icvcn or eight it excellent; fiva or it it good. 1. Is the Zambezi river in Asia. Africa or South America? 2. In mathematics, what is the accepted value of Pi? 3 What is the name of the Kegrn Republic on the west coast of Africa? 1. How did the Heiihmarshal Herman Goering meet his death? r. Under what ancient ssstem was a tenant known as a vas- sat' 6 Cinderella's slipier was made ol what material." 7. What was Ihe final capital o( the confederacy? A. Who is generally regarded as the father ol the modern sub marine? 9. The prefixes "semi" and "domi" have Ihe same mean ing: what Is that meaning ." 10. Correct the following sen tence The government begun he work of rebuilding r: i. Africa, s. a.ititi. al once Ihe Answers: X Liberia. 1. by (wallowing pul mn. S. Feudal aystcm. 6. (,1ms. 7. Danville. Va. 8. Simon Lake. . Half. in. "The government began . . ." 4 DECEMBER 29, 1963 Airport Enlargement Needed The main runway at the Medford municipal airport is just over 5,400 feet long. To meet fed eral specifications for the type of planes now using it, it should be 6,100 feet. And, to accom modate larger and faster aircraft which the fu ture may bring to this area, it should be at least 6,800 feet in length, and possibly more. The airport, in short, once a municipal pride and joy, is now obsolescent and inadequate. What should be done about it? And who should pay for the expensive job of enlargement? These are the questions that are facing the city, the county, and airport users these days. SIMPLE extension of the runway to 6,100 feet ivnnlrl post nhnnr o niiartpi'.millinn rlnllyvs " " -.www ' " ' " -I ' But other capital improvement plans for the air port bring the total up to about V-2 million. These include extending runway and ap proach lighting, extension and widening of taxi ways, fencing, additional hangars, a warmup ramp, and so on. The federal government would help pay the cost of runway extension on a matching basis (about 56 per cent federal funds, and 44 per cent local funds), but only on the basis of a 6,100 feet runway. HPHUS IT appears that we are faced with ex--1 penditures on the order of many hundreds of thousands of dollars to what it should be. The city of Medford the airport. And it will continue to have a strong interest in it. But no longer, it seems to us, should it bear the whole, or even a major Dart of the re sponsibility. Passengers parts of this county (and as well) use the airport. bince airports are very almost inevitably they must be operated by one level of government or another sometimes co operatively by city and county, sometimes by a port authority, and in at least one case in Oregon, by a port agency which is supported voluntarily by one city and two county governments. AN INVESTIGATION of the various possibil iilnc! l'a nrtur llnrlnp nnrl va nva rrlarl to note that the county appears interested in as suming a rightful role in helping out. Ihe airport plays too large and important a part in the economy of the entire valley to allow it to become wholly outdated. It once was one of the finest airports in the state, and still ranks second only to Portland in airlines providing service, the Medford airport ranks ahead ot both bugene and Pendleton air ports, which are the third and fourth in the state. But if it is to retain keep up to date so that equipment, it must oe IT IS OUR view one a number of people interested in airport development that it job, it should be done tirst class, and in a manner which will satisfy requirements for the foresee able future. A 6,100 foot runway will probably be ade quate for the next five years or more. But the time is coining when new types of aircraft, re quiring more landing and takeoff length, will be in service, but would be barred from schedules here unless the runway is further extended. It would be short-sighted and penny-wisc-pounrl-foolish to do only half the job that ulti mately will need doing. E. A. He May Be Back IIOWCll Appllllg S announcement that he Will j not. seek rp-plnrlimi ns SruTPtavv nf Kt:itr npvt 1 year will remove, even if temporarily, one of the most vigorous and colorful political figures in the state trom a position of prominence, "Tiny" Appling has a mind of his own, and he isn't a bit reticent about expressing his views, often in language that the Darn, lie also nail, saving grace of a sense of humor. (lie was asked recently if it bothered him to be mis-quoted in the press. "Mock, no," he said in effect. "The time I get into trouble is when I'm quoted correctly.") rESP!TE disclaimers and polite public utter- ances, there has been little love lost be tween Appling and (Jov. Mark Hatfield in recent months, even though it was Hatfield who first got Appling into politics, via appointment. I here have been sharp clashes between the Ivvn. bulb nnhlie unci iii 1 , I , ' uvi-ii ii(t.M-ii uu nii'iu lie ims cNnioueu a ilitical COlliaee too t tun. iji, um, saying things that were i ,. . i . . - IU llUJ'll'tV IllC I'l'I'UllU lit. 1HU Ull llUl lllill 11V was forthright often modified the effect. HE ISN'T overly modest. But what politician . i. i iii-i is or, in tact, should be,' WO Have Oil t'11 disagreed. Willi Appling S automatically arouses far tooj views. Rut that dues not lessen our esteem for,much ba(l (e.-img --aithoiigh him as a public servant and politician. SZ" In ruling out a reelection bid, he lett the door also highly objectionable. I just a bit ajar for future political activity, ore-: ... j , sunlably when his fil .. , , J . , e , more to his satisfacl lin i it nt lion. Ann, knowing t ..J 1 : a .vim, ruimwuj; me bee Sting, We'd llOt be surprised to see Howell Annline's hat back in the l ine- before nvuiv limrr vn'.-i h;ta In nn 1 V V 1 11101 c jutis nae LOllC t. L,. A. bring the airport up to built and has operated and shippers from all Josephine and Siskiyou seldom money-makers, air traffic. With three this leadership, and to it can be used by new expanded and improved shared, incidentally, by we are going to do this would melt the paint off in some measure the 1 iv:itr nltliminh IhU 1ms r;re .,. ,f ituii.-! viit-vr in imwiuimi. consmeranie (letrrec 01 Ilium occasion (loimr and iipim tKLaMUU, oomj, am not necessarily designed , . i ,1 e.' ,i , i V n, kn.- li ;ff; f ini iriiu 11 ,-v till il uc cwv :....t e .i. i u uiL'llce til (lie poillicar At The lit u'aMiXiroPi po-ii-i- JOHNSON'S ASSAULT ON POVERTY WASHINGTON - Too much should not be expected (rom the first stage of the coordinated assault- on poverty in America, which President Johnson will propose to Congress after the New Year. In the present rancid situation on Capitol Hill, it would be fu tile as well as politically damag ing for the President to ask for another major spending program at this time. Thus what he will propose will necessarily be in the nature of a pilot program. The germ of the scheme which the new President is now ex panding and improving, was an order given by his predecessor "to do whatever the federal government can do" about the decaying, hideously distressed coal mining counties of Eastern Kentucky. President Kennedy had been horrified by reports of current conditions in this un happy region. II Y KENNEDY'S order, all the " different tilings the Federal government is authorized to do to relieve distress everything from the provision of school lunches lo Social Security pay ments was brought together in a single plan of action. By ener getic effort, the winter hardships threatening the coal counties were at least considerable dimi nished. What President Johnson is now considering is a much larg er, nationwide effort lo improve conditions in (lie most backward and poverty-stricken rural areas and the darkest of our urban dark depths. Legislation will be needed, not only to complete or continue pre viously proposed programs like vocational education for the functionally unemployed. Legis lation will also he needed to as sure a combined, centrally di rected assault on povertv, with all available weapons, wherever a particularly slrcnmis effort is required. 'pilERE arc two things to he A said about this good begin ning. In the first place, this Johnson beginning contains ex ceptionally welcome news to every American with any souse of citizenship. The news is that President Johnson has at long last recognized the basic prin ciple that must underlie any at tempt to solve Ihe problem of poverty in the midst of afflu I ence. This principle is. quite simply. I that discrimination in favor of the distressed and underprivi leged is nol merely practically necessary; it is also morally un- avoidable. Those who share in the benefits of the affluent I sociotv America has created have no right to growl or grimi 'hie about extra investments to . help the non-sharers Slum area schools are one ni... ions rase in point, and a case, it is pleasant to retold. that President Johnson has verv , '""'"" Tl" n,im l"irf luantitirs nonsense have been spoken and written about "de facto segregation" in the schools in our great cities The attempt to ?hulll(' i:ml i 'rom st'hot 'district is shuttle children hack and forth hool district to school niw-imiklv imu.ikn II , I 1 lAr. IHU HldllCr, in truth. whether Ihe slum areas are muinl,. i,,l,ll.l Kt- P..e n """" . wnile people. What matters is ,nat lhf Sl-n,wls ln such arras "rc lmost ,nv"nnW' P00ll'r in every respect, with meaner Pl. I grounds, nastier buildings, few - MLDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEUt'ORD, Half Matter of Fact Ey Joseph Alsop tc) Vnv York Herald Tribune Syndicate er and less qualified teachers, and so on, than the schools in the same city's middle class areas. This is the case, moreover, although the schools in the slum area have a vastly bigger job to do. In the middle class areas, much of the job can be left to the children's home environ ments. But in the slum areas, there arc no books in the homes, there is no space to study, there is no hope in the hearts of too many of the parents. In short, the home environ ment gives the children neither the incentive nor the facilities which they need to train them- j selves for success in a high- technical society. And there is no place where these facilities and this incentive can be pro vided except in the schools. IT ENCE the schools in the 1 slum areas need much larg er investments per child not much less than the middle class areas, as at present, so that air and sunlight and good teaching and play space and study space will give the children which the slum area schools serve the op portunity which every young American ought to have. For this purpose, discrimination in favor of these schools is simply unavoidable. The objections of the Catholic church to aid to education in general certainly ought not to apply, and probably will not ap ply, to special aid to education in the seriously under-privileged urban and rural areas. If Presi dent Johnson proposes special test projects following these rules, which he is considering doing, he will be taking a vital step in a necessary direction. As to the other point needing to be made about this beginning of President Johnson's, it is a straight, practical, dollars-and-cents point. Even if the assault on poverty ends by costing bil lions. Ihe price will surely be less than the long range cost Ihe cast to (lie taxpayers, mind you of leaving the ulcers of poverty unhealed amid our gen eral prosperity. A Guardedly Optimistic Look WW By ERIC SEVAREID (l)IMrlliiilrd Hfil Hv Thr 11.111 Svntltt-atr, lur.) (All UlElil itr-sr-rvrii) Human beings are about to to be very difficult to see just; There has been measurable j had thought. In anv case, sim turn over Ihe calendar page and where such an event could de- cause or President Johnson's Pic nationalism, especially the say goodbye lo the fraction of i velop. There seem to be no like- claim before the United Nations ' brand-new nationalism of the lime known as una. but there ly candidates not even Berlin, (hat, "The World has become a "emergent" peoples, is a more is nothing much to suggest that , ... little safer, the wav ahead a powerful motivation than anv " "'" ",,,,,u""' " forms we tre turning over a new leaf, that either sweet rea- little wild action, and no grand known as the "depolarization" j such conditions: the interests son or senselessness will rule in confrontations. Indeed, il seems 0f the political world has con- of Communism cannot. 1MU Presumably, we sh a 1 1 fair enough to say that the out- tinned in this past vear. and al-1 " ' trudge along in our normal pro- standing characteristic of the most, as it were." against the Revolutions, coups, acts of ag portions of general goodness nations in the past year was re- will of the great powers. Amer- gression there will be in the and general cussedness. Still, , strain!. That is a long way from jca included. Small islands of year ahead: local Communist the atmosphere contains suspic-1 peaceableness, but one of its i political strength or at least victories there may well be. ion that affairs have been so or-1 prerequisites. s stubborness have emerged all 1 But there is little reason t o i ant;iiiH uieiuM'nvs uuu cusst'ti- ness will have harder going in the coming year. It is a little hard to believe that, at home, we will repeat a vear in which a President, a Nccro leader and several little girls were assassinated, the lnt- ter within a church, sanctuary even in the Middle Ages. It is easier to believe that, in the i world al large, we can repeat a 1 year in which the major forces' OREGON Soviets May Lose U.N. Assembly Vote For Bill Defaults By RICHARD SPONG i to the two-year rule paid up be The Soviet Union is a chancy : no ruling, and a showdown was debtor, paying the bills it avoided. chooses. The United States found this out painfully in its experience with Russia's lend lease account after World War II. The United Nations has found it out in regard to special assessments for the Congo and Middle Eastern peacekeeping forees. This deliberate policy of , dent of a special session. Short non-support could cost Russia its j of such an emergency meeting, vote in the General Assembly, j Russia's vote would come in Article 19 of the U.M. Charter j jeopardy only at the regular ses provides that a member owing sion next September, the equivalent of two years' con-1 Ambassador Stevenson in a trihiltlnnc "ctiall hara nn irnla ', in the General Assembly." Adlai E. Stevenson on Dec. 18 declar- ed that the future of the U.N as an "action agency" was threatened by the refusal of the Soviet Union to pay its share of U.N. activities. He indicated that the United States would in sist on enforcing Article 19. A day earlier the Russian delegation had confirmed its re fusal to pay the $36,984,971 it owes for the Congo force and the $15,638,166 it owes for the Middle East. It holds both these activities illegal. The International Court of Justice at The Hague on July 20, 1962 ruled that all members of the United Nations are legal ly obligated to pay expenses of Ihe peacekeeping forces in the Congo and the Middle East. The Court divided on the issue 9 to 5 on the "advisory opinion" given in response to a resolution of the Assembly, adopted in De cember 1961, asking the Court's view. Russia quite understandably had opposed the Assembly reso lution. Russia and the Commu nist bloc in general profess to believe that peacemaking as sessments should be voted not by the General Assembly but by the Security Council, in which Russia has a veto. Last Decem ber the General Assembly voted, 76 to 17, to accept the World Court's opinion. Opposing the World Court opinion were the Communist bloc and Cuba, France, Jordan, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and South Africa. The fact that France takes a position on peacemaking assessments re markably like that of the Soviet Union makes the whole subject peculiarly delicate for the United States and the West in general. Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, president of a special session on U.N. financing last spring, an nounced that he would enforce Article 19 in certain circum stances, but Haiti, then subject "Oh llll yes, and election- ttcrm year J m"J O Ml .,, S3 -M& for dancer held pretty steady, ! the ideal kind of peace, but it is who push and drive the hard in which the icebergs of the the kind we have, and it is serv-1 est against diversity, who strive cold war melted a little, least above the watcrline. at There is more reason now than for some years to feci that in the interactions among Hons espccially the great na- tions, the forces for order are siiunrr mdii uiu luiccs mi ui- nrcier. likc an nuncncs, tnis one could he proved wrong bv an 'overnight event, but it happens '"vie " ,'"lk among nations in 13. but very No adventure remotely com- ' parable to the Soviet adventure in Cuba in 1W2 was attempted; even the tire-breathing (.hinese liances. as (he Russians have power adventures and confron walked softly around Ihe borders been less able to exercise their tations seem less and less like of India and made no noticeable , will within their system. One ly. Within this over-all straight effort lo extend or intensify the cannot vet be sure, but there is jacket, the wildest antics of war in Viet Nam At least for the time being, they arc going easy on Korea and Formosa, as well- w seem to real risl A pax hatcver their talk, they to have no stomach for k of nuclear war pax atomic, is by no means Dr. Carlos Sosa Rodriguez, president of the Assembly ses sion which ended on Dec. 17, said mat the decision on en forcement involved political as well as. legal issues, He declined to say whether he would uphold the rule if he were elected presi- Inlouicinn intnrinau) nn Finn television interview on Dec. 22 made it quite clear that the United States would be pleased if Russia and other delinquent nations met their obligations sufficiently to avoid a contest over the vote forfeit. He also explained that no question of expulsion was involved, and that by our interpretation of the Charter, Russia would retain its Security Council veto. Editorial Research Reports. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The Johnson administration is now expected to seek several hundred million dollars for the opening round of a new attack on domestic poverty. HOW WILL it I.pI'r risk a work? guess. These added hundreds of mil lions of dollars will in effect be printing press money because they will be added to the hun dreds of billions that we al ready owe. But, temporarily, the spending of them will create an added demand for goods. For a while, there will be an illusion of new, prosperity, because the production of the added supply of goods will create new jobs. But- Because of the added demand for goods arising out of the sending of the new supply of printing press money, prices will tend to rise. Because of the rise in prices, the time will soon arrive when the added supply of money will buy no more THINGS than the former small er supply of money would buy. CO- kJ The shot in the arm will wear off quickly, and it will soon be necessary to provide another shot in the arm to best wishes to you In '61! ing its purpose tnis side of a real spread of atomic weapons into irresponsible hands. The hands that now hold them arc intensely, painstakingly respon- j sible and are likely to remain so, notwithstanding the efforts of overheated authors to imagine 1 catastrophe by accident or panic. , little brighter. i Oniir- rlea.lv ilw. n around Ihe world, and we have been less able to exercise our will within our svstem of al- ihe chance that the great lesson of this period will be that there is safetv in numbers in a sense not originally intended bv that phrase in the sense of diver- sity. Since it is the Communists GREAT IDEAS. RACIAL PREJUDICE Dear Dr. Adlcr: Bigotry and prejudice have plagued mankind for centuries. The degree of prejudice has fluc tuated in the history of civil-' Ization, but it seems never to disappear entirely. How have the authors of the great hooks viewed this problem, and what were their solutions to it? Michael Langenbach .116-5'Jth Place Kenosha, Wise. Dear Mr. Lagenbach: Preju dice has varied in its rbjects at different times. In former ages it was directed mainly against people of other cultures or re ligions. Aristotle, for instance, viewed the non-Greek peoples create another illusion of easy wealth for everybody. T WORKS much the same as it. Maybe in the form of a shot in the arm, or a swallowed pill. For a while, you feel like a new person. It appears to you that there isn't ANYTHING you can't do. For a few hours, it's a won derful world you're living in. You're a wonderful person. You feel the urge to go out and conquer new worlds. Then It begins to wear off. WHAT TO DO? Well, you take another shot in the arm. And again you feel a rise in your spirits. This rise is for a shorter duration of time. It wears off quicker. But while it lasted, it was wonderful. So you take another shot in the arm. And then still ANOTHER ONE. And so on. You keep it up, and in the course of time it no longer gives you a lift. What to do then? About all that remains is to change your brand of shots and do it all over again. Eventually the time comes when you're a wreck. TT WORKS the same way with this business of infusing the economy with another shot of printing press money every time the economy begins to slow down. The world has had a lot of experience with shots in the arm. Both in the form of hasheesh and in the form of printing press money. Always, in the course of time, it turns out to be a flop. PROBING question: WHAT SHOULD W. E DO? EXPERIENCE points for us the moral that there is no such thing as something for nothing. If we could have something for nothing cither in the form of dope or in the form of printing press money the time would have arrived long ago when we would all be lolling at our ease, in a world where there would be plenty for everybody to be had merely by reaching out and picking it up. at 1964 tor a monolithic world, in their own pattern, it seems reason able to look at this developing condition as a gain for the West and what it stands for. The strength of Western culture and its economic systems are prov ing far stronger than the Com- i munists anticipated and far ! more of a lure and example for U !:., ... .. I me nuw nine nations man tney .ideology, in the long ran our interests can nrnsner n n rt . r think that the naralvsis nf the ! great powers, impo'sd bv the atom, will not continue. Great small nations can be endurable, If this is so. then the chief item of business on the new calendar of reasonable men, on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Is to ! see that other nations do not .obtain the atomic weapon. from the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler (e 1063, Publlihcn NewipapeJ Sjndlaui as "barbarians"; he regarded them as inferior to the Greeks in culture and political institu tions. Similarly, the Jews were hated and persecuted because of their religious beliefs until fairly recent times, when their ethnic origin became the object of prejudice. In nur riav. rare has rpnlarrl religion and culture as the main object of prejudice and discrim ination. Race certainly affords an obvious target of attack, be cause skin-color and other racial traits are usually written on a man s lace ana are muicuit to conceal. Appeals to a sense of rapial irtantitv nnrl rlnminatmn have been astonishingly, if la- meniamy, successtui in our "advanced" modern civiliza tion. The causes of prejudice are milltinlA nnrl Hppn In Ihe first place, prejudice satisfies cer tain psychological needs. Many persons line to nave oiner peo ple to whom they can feel su perior and whom they can push around. They like to have some one on whom they can vent their aggressions with impunity, and thereby alleviate their own irustrations. ine Jews for cen turies Oroviriprt F.llrnnpanc wilh such an outlet, as was pointed out oy sigmund Freud, t o whom we owe the psychological analysis oi prejudice. Social and economic factors also play a role in prejudice. Attitudes nf Sllnerinrilv tnuat-H Negroes rest on the concrete Historical iacc mat negroes have been an outcast or pariah ClaSS Since thp arlipvl Have nt our country. Originally chattel siaves, since tneir legal eman cipation they have lived in a state of economic peonage, at the bottom of the social ladder. Discriminatory employ m e n t policies restricting the better jobs mainly to whites, and mak ing Negroes the first to be laid off, are a very tangible eco nomic factor on the side of rac ial prejudice. Such policies profit those who get or keep the jobs which Negroes are not per mitted to hold. Residence in the better neighborhoods or suburbs is another mark of status and "arrival" in our society, ind the worth of this mark to its bene ficiaries lies, among other things, in its "lily-white" exclu siveness. Of this type of prejudice, the great American historian George Bancroft once sagely re marked, "The prejudices of ig norance are more easily re moved than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blind ly adopted, the second wilfully preferred." Added to the selfish appeal of special economic and social privileges to those who benefit from them, is the habit ual ingraining of discrimination until it becomes revered custom and tradition. Prejudice becomes a "way of life," which we drink in with our mothers" milk and take for natural and right. Hence, we regard pro posals to modify or abolish dis crimination as subversive and indecent. However, as Freud has taught us, things are not so certain and secure deep down within us. We fear the people whom we are holding down, lest they retaliale against us: and we tend lo hate and loathe those whom we fear. Then, too, we may in spite of the influence of long-time cus torn be disturbed by guilt feel ings, becoming dimly aware of the discrepancy between our proclaimed religious and polit ical ideals and our actual prac tices. This at first mav make us only angrier, self-defensive, and more set in our prejudices. But eventually we must emerge from the vicious psychic circle of fear, anxiety, and guilt. "There is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice, none at all," said the late H. G. Wells. "I write delib- I eraiciy it is tne worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, mtpltv and ahnminatinn K..H any other sort of error in the world. Let us. therefore, resolve to remove this abomination from our midst, and determine that the promise of American life shall be fulfilled for all of us, as one people indivisible. You can win a 51-volume set of Ihe Great Books nf the Western World by writing a letter, not to exceed ISO words, incorporating a ques tion of general interest for Dr. Adler to consider (or Inclusion in this column. Each week he will select as first priic win ners the writers of the best letters. He will ue one of these letters as a basis for a future column and will answer it in terms of Ihe intellectual herbage of Ihe Great Books 443 works by 74 authors, span ning 30 centuries ol thought. Address the letters In Dr. Mortimer .1. Adler. in rare of this newspaper. O