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9 'Turn the other PAGE OF OPINIONS Ours yours and others PAGE 26 PALO ALTO TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1966 EDITORIALS Next time try the French train These new cars have a stainless steel exterior, with a garnet red band. Inside they have either central or lateral aisles. The ones with central aisles are reserved for travellers who want to lake their meals at their seats, without having to walk to the dining car. Among the conveniences and comforts are air-conditioning, electrically operated Venetian blinds inside double windows, fluorescent lighting, automatically opening glass doors and extra comfortable seats in bright colors. The French National Railroads have ordered 86 of these cars to be built, 42 of them for the Mistral.

Its a long time since the American railroads have done anything like this. Perhaps if they put more emphasis on modernizing their passenger services, they wouldnt be losing so many customers to the airlines and the buses. While service and equipment on American passenger trains have been deteriorating, European trains have been getting more modern and more competitive with other modes of transportation. If American railroads are interested in building up their passenger traffic, they would do well to look at whats happening in France, for example. One of Frances most famous trains is the Mistral.

It runs from Paris to Lyon in central France to the Riviera, on the Mediterranean coast. Its always been a luxury train. Now the French are going to make it even more luxurious. Theyre adding to the Mistral new cars of the type called the T.E.E. (Trans-Europ-Express) which have been used with success on the Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run.

transcendent than the beauty which shines through the life of Jesus the intricate, delicate counterpoint that occurs when human spirits touch each other in the consciousness of loving brotherhood. Both evanescent and eternal, this brotherhood does not depend on equality of power, similarity of training, or assurance of any tangible benefit to be derived one from the other. In its purest form, it most often occurs in temporary encounters, the simple undemanding smile of understanding across the barriers of separate individuality. It can, however, be built upon. Continuity of honest fellowship can be built, so that a kind of green oasis forms and spreads in accord with its own laws of growth.

This formation of the sustaining oasis of a true living brotherhood seems to me to be one of the best and truest purposes of the church, and just because we have fallen far short into hyprocrisy, triviality and the effort to maintain a secular security, does not mean we should let ourselves forget the true meaning of this churchly vision. The preservation of the church as a home base for the hungry spirit, the feelings of individual members of the congregation toward each other, tne trust in mutual honor, the confidence that each is humbly asking God for guidance these things are important. and must not lightiy be bartered off for an urgent pursuit after a gleaming social Utopia. MIRIAM C. NIXON, 2203 Wyandotte Mountain View.

Shall we depend on machineguns? Editor of the Times: Alexander Bodis mature, compassionate, understanding column, Mobs are symptoms (July 18) needs little comment or amplification. He understands fully the frustra-tration and resentment of Ne groes who live in substandard homes, crammed into too little space poor, often jobless, without enough food. The accompanying cartoon graphically illustrates the point. On another page is Dr. Martin Luther Kings warning: Every major city is sitting on a powder keg." Walter Lippmann regrets that the Viet Nam War is consuming the money needed io finance the reforms promised the Negro people.

However, they could be financed by raising taxes. But this will not be done, the austere and unselfish policy will not be adopted. The crude truth is that the great majority of us, for the most part white will resist higher taxes in order to (Continued on page 27) THE PROWLER oallas k. ooij Little stories about mere people 'bird in the hancT 4 fought off the citys proposal, contending it would be unfair for them to havp to pay the cost of the extra-width right of way. Now Arnold proposes that the council agree to spend the underpass money for this right of way.

County officials say there is precedent for such a diversion, and a spokesman tor the landowners is all for it. No doubt drivers tired of waiting in traffic jams at Page Mill and El Camino will brand the move as expediency. But it is a worthy bit of expediency. Completion of the widening of El Camino, begun in Palo Alto with attractive results several years ago, is one project that commands wide agreement within the city government. Would it not be far better to get that one improvement moving than to leave both the underpass and widening projects stalled and the bond money idle and in peril of being diverted elsewhere? Arnold sketches The pleasing, the practical and the politically possible are put together in a plan offered by Councilman Edward Arnold for discussion by the Palo Alto City Council tonight.

Arnolds plan involves $1.5 million in Santa Clara County expressways bond funds earmarked for an underpass at Page Mill Road and El Camino Real. Because that project is stymied by presently irreconcilable disagreement, Arnold proposes that the money be used to unblock another project. It is the extra-width widening of El Camino Real in the Barron Park area. A jumble of irregular setbacks and junky signs there has prompted several state and national journals to print unflattering comment on "slurban blight in Palo Alto. 'The city wants El Camino widened to 120 feet, whereas the state standard is 100 feet.

Last year 88 landowners (Letters intended for use in the Forum column should not be longer than 400 words. All communications addressed to the editor are subject to being cut. Shorter letters will receive preferential treatment. Letters should be typewritten or printed so as to be easily legible. Letters must carry the signature and address of the writer.

The Times does not publish anonymous EDITOR) Capitalism is to blame Editor of the Times: So-called "race riots" and war escalation in Viet Nam appear to be separate, unrelated events. However, they are not. They are symptoms of a deeper sickness the terminal illness of a dying social order, capitalism. On the one hand, fabulous wealth is accumulating in the hands of a few those vho own and must sell the huge product of technologically highly-developed facilities. In order to dispose of this product, foreign outlets are now needed.

Hence war, which if successful both ensures an area for future markets and provides through military waste an immediate outlet for surplus. But for the worker, Negro or white, technological growth means unemployment, poverty, slums, riots. This situation cannot be changed by reforms, by wars on poverty. Capitalism, as long as it survives, can mean only a further widening of this gap between the affluence nf those who own, and the economic insecurity of those who do not. However, there is a way out.

The Socialist Labor party for many years has advocated collective ownership of the means of wealth production, thereby eliminating this dangerous split between capitalist owner and worker. Production can be geared to what is actually needed, not, as present ly, for profit maximization. War-breeding surplus cannot accumulate. CAROLYN M. FRAKE, 1700 Purdue East Palo Alto.

Churchs role: sustaining oasis Editor of the Times: Earlier, when a committee of my own church was trying to think through what were our real purposes, I wrote down some ideas. They may apply to the controversy at the Mountain View Presbyterian Church: The purpose of the church is to promote the growth of the grace and the glory of God in all parts of human life. Is there a need (or is it possible) to define the grace and the glory of God? The sign of God in the world is beauty the spirit responds as iron filings respond to a magnet. Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise," these are the things which are of God, and these are the things the church is to nourish and sustain. This means that the beauties of nature, the ordered creations of art and music all fall within the concerns of the church, and that development and fulfillment of these parts of the grace of God is a thoroughly proper pursuit of Christians in their role as Christians.

But of all the beauties in the experience of man, probably none is more marvelously SIDE GLANCES FKQ31 Till; KIHTOII Noise needs tackling too By Alexander llodi OFTEN IN RESORT TOWNS, WHERE tourist hordes pour in during "the season, the residents, although not only prospering from such invasions but also depending upon them for livelihood, take a contemptuous attitude toward the visitors. Many of the residents become tourists themselves by going elsewhere at such times, allegedly to escape the invaders. The term "tourists thus becomes among them a word of disrespect, as if tourists were some lower form of life. But there is also snobbery to be found within the tourist ranks as well. Long-experienced travelers refer amusedly to first-timers in the tourist ranks as if the latter were inferiors.

We go to places where the ordinary tourists dont go and see things that they never get to see, say the snippy old-timers. And some of the first-timers of this season, when they become old-timers themselves, will be taking the same attitude toward the new crop of beginners. RS. HAD A PASSION FOR grievances, and could construe almost anything as a slight. If she called at a home when the occupant was out, or dialed the telephone and got no answer, her comment, made in a hurt tone, would be, Its strange how they always seem to be not at home whenever I drop by or try to telephone, as if it were pre-arranged.

On the other hand, when learning that an acquaintance had been unable to contact her by either telephone or a house call, the comment, also in a hurt tone, would be, "Its funny how they always manage to find a time when I am out when they call." You couldnt win. NE BUSINESS MAN HAS HIS OWN PRE-scription for the blues. On any day when he is feeling discouraged or depressed for any reason, lie makes it a rule to think up some thing nice he can do for someone. He may invite a friend to have lunch with him, write a letter to someone he long has neglected, or maybe visit a shut-in, or do anything else that might cause somebody else joy. He has found that while he is thus engaged, his woes and worries evaporate.

4 WOMAN ARRANGING FOR A TRIP abroad decided foresightedly to do ahead of time whatever would save time while overseas. One of the petty things on her list was the purchase of postage stamps for the numerous postcards she would be sending to friends at home. Not until she was well on her way over the ocean did it dawn on her that the stamps issued in any country have but one-way-street validity. (CONVERSATION QUOTES: THE trouole with the produce market is that they pick the fruit too green and the vegetables too old. I worked my head off getting a good lunch for the group, only to find that every one of them was on a diet.

I dont like to smoke, but I do it because it makes you feel so foolish to be the only one not smoking when everybody else in the group is. When her husband said that because business was bad they would have to cut down on certain expenses, she flared up and said, 'But it is a mans duty to provide such things. I STORY NOTE: CHANNING HOME. A hospital for poverty stricken women, opened in Boston in 1857 under guidance of Harriet Ryan Albee. It became one of the best-known charity hospitals in the United States, and one of the earliest to accept tubercular patients.

The Home and Mrs. Albee were subjects of poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson. IAMOUS LAST WORDS: HOW CAN WE I1 ever explain this to the folks? other motor vehicles what we need are definitions. We need laws that state that no vehicle will emit more than a specified amount of noise. Well have to oe able to measure that noise, so well need instruments.

Also needed is a law defining what mufflers are and what are adequate mufflers. Existing law is so vague as to be almost meaningless. But motorbikes are only one part of the problem. The sputtering noises they emit are noticeable because they are new. Weve had motorcycles for a long time, but they werent as small or noisy as some of the foreign models that are so popular today.

Trucks, buses and even automobiles are noisy. Construction equipment working in residential or downtown areas often creates a racket. The noise of jet planes that fly overhead is rarely noticed, unless you happen to be attending an open-air concert at Stanford. The labored chugging of the Southern Pacific is absorbed into an already noisy atmosphere, standing out only in the quiet hours of the night, when it carries up and down the Peninsula. 0 WHATS NEEDED? SOME ACTION now on the noise front.

The easiest place to attack it would be locally. A city concerned with its future environment say Palo Alto would not be acting prematurely if it started adopting city ordinances against noise now. A general municipal ordinance against noise would have all sorts of rough problems at the start. In some cases noise created by motor vehicles, for instance it might be in conflict with some inadequate state law. Someone would raise the question as to whether it would bar children from shouting.

It would be opposed by truckers and builders whose equipment does so much roaring and clanking. But it would be a start. Years ago the atmosphere of the Bay Area was clear, except for the cool fog that regularly swept across it. Then came more people, more cars, more industries, more of everything that poured waste into the atmosphere. Today we have smog, irritating and healthdamaging, all too frequently.

To combat it weve formed an air-pollution control district, passed legislation, taken other steps to try to cut down on pollution. The trouble is, much of this has come too late. This is the history of too many problems we don't tackle them until they become critical. Then its a losing battle we fight. ONE GROWING PROBLEM WE SHOULD tackle right now is that of noise.

Noise, perhaps, isnt quite as serious a problem as air pollution. Enough of the latter and you can die. Noise only drives you crazy. The scientists and doctors are just begin- ning to give noise the attention it deserves. Industry has been finding that noise can cut i down productivity.

It makes people edgy, cre-I ating employe problems. At best, its distracting. In some ways noise is easier to solve than air pollution. Walls can be insulated, machines put into separate rooms or covered with shields. For homes, the cost of such protection often is prohibitive.

But when you get out into the residential sec- tions and the so-called rural area, you can notice the noise more, for these areas are supposed to be quiet. Noise drowns out individual noisy sounds. In peaceful and quiet surround-' ings, those sounds stand out. rpHE OTHER DAY I WROTE ABOUT THE JL noise caused by motorbikes. A few readers had asked what could be done about them, what laws are needed.

So far as the motorbikes are concerned or QUESTIONS 1. Which was the first state in the Union to adopt the Australian ballot? 2. Which Latin American countries are referred to as the ABC Powers? 3. How many Canadian provinces border on Alaska? 4. What segment of the Pan American Highway system is known as the Inter-American Highway? ANSWERS 1.

Massachusetts, May 30. 1888. 2. Argentina, Brazil and Chile. 3.

Two Yukon and British Columbia. 4. The segment between our Mexican border and Panama AHOIXII Till; BEATS Politicos, unlike cereal, may ad lib By Gill Fox Things are going to be different in the general election, Burby promised. Kiddle said tv will be the big weapon in the campaign, and on TV images are what count. He reminded his audience of the primary and the stark contrast in images between Reagan, the polished actor who is at home on the tube, and George Christopher, who seemed ill at ease.

Television is considered so important, Riddle noted, the Republicans are using a video tape recorder at the Capitol in Sacramento to train GOP candidates. Neophyte candidates are stuck in front of the camera and then bombarded with tough questions in a grueling test of their ability to project the proper public image. ON THE SUBJECT OF TV, BURBY AND Riddle were quizzed about the forthcoming Brown-Reagan debate. No format has been arrived at, yet. Burby expressed the hope it will differ from the familiar Kennedy-Nixon type debates.

Those first debates in 1960 that are credited with swinging the election to Kennedy set the style for succeeding debates, like the Cranston-Salin-ger and Salinger-Murphy affairs in 1964. Burby complained the format previously followed doesn't allow enough time for a penetrating probe of issues. He said he prefers a format limiting the number of issues discussed to two or three, so more time might be devoted to details. What Burby didnt say, of course, is that such a format might work to Brown's advantage, as he supposedly is the candidate with the greater knowledge of state affairs. Riddle said he would do away with the traditional panel of newsmen asking questions, and allow the candidates to debate in areas of their own choosing.

Which also would mean they could memorize their lines in advance. By JOHN KEPLINGER 'T'HE 1966 gubernatorial campaign or how A to package and sell a candidate like breakfast cereal was topic A at a recent gathering of public relations experts in Palo Alto. Jack Burby and Mel Riddle, two old hands at the game, were chief kibitzers at the function a dinner meeting of the Peninsula chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Burby is Gov. Edmund G.

Brown's press secretary, and Riddle once held the same post for Goodwin J. Knight, Browns Republican predecessor. Frankly, said Riddle, handling a politician is not very far removed from handling a product, with one exception our product can talk." Talking, or not following the script, can have its pitfalls. Riddle recalled that Goody Knight used to wear glasses when reading a speech. Whenever he removed the glasses, his staff knew an ad lib was coming and cringed.

Burby, whose boss puts his foot in his mouth on occasion, agreed public relations will play a big role in the Brown-Ronald Regan campaign. He admitted the Brown campaign organization goofed in the primary by taking it easy and not worrying about maverick Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles. While Brown was relaxing, content in the knowledge the polls showed him way out in front, Yorty was clobbering him with- a hardhitting Southern California television campaign. The Brown people were so confident, they decided to ignore Yorty and even cancelled some clever TV spots of their own designed by the PR experts to cut Yorty to pieces. 50 Years Ago (From the files of the Times) July 25, 1916 Five persons died and between 40 and 50 were injured in the Preparedness Day parade bombing on Market Street near the Ferry Building July 22.

But by a quirk of fate, Charles R. Detrick, a Stanford man and secretary of the State Railroad Commi-sion, was saved from death by his bankbook. Marching with Company of the First California Volunteers, he was close by when the bomb exploded. Although he was not aware of it at the time, a missile hit him on the right side, tore a hole in his coat, struck his bankbook and was deflected. Later, he noticed a small blue mark on his body.

A Palo Altan, the Rev. Joseph M. Gleason, was within 100 feet of the point where the bomb went off. The blast almost knocked him off his feet, he said, but he was not injured. Very good for your first attempt.

Miss Lindsay Let see What was I driving at? 1966 by NLA, Inc. "Is this out Hut fide on motorbike, Evelyn?" 9 Hr 6 I urn.