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Your Cor Painted for 50 00 In your choice of color from our stock of DuPonr and Ditaler Enamels. Our Paint Jobs .Stay Painted Arrow Body and Fender Shop 502 N. Main St. True Liberalism Adapts Itself To Situations Demanding Changes By BRUCE BIOSSAT What does it mean to be a liberal? In the 19th century, liberalism meant a high degree of freedom from government restriction! in both the economic and political realms. It set the stage for the commercial and industrial growth that made over much of the world. In the 20th century, by an odd twist, liberalism seems to symbo lize the very opposite tendencies: bigger government, more restric tions, less room for free choice. How can the term "liberalism" have any worth if it can be stretched to ' cover, these ex tremes? , Let's wade into the confusion surrounding this sadly overwork ed term and see if we can't de termine whether it still has any value. . .. ' To have any continuing mean ing,' liberalism clearly must be defined in a manner that will make it adaptable to changing times and conditions. To define it thus means to free it from any permanent associa tion with a fixed pattern of ideas, whether social, economic or pollti- km POLIO PROTECTION $23l For your entire family $5,000 Medical Expense for Each Member $11 Annual Premium Pays Actual Expenses for Treatment of Polio for further information see BUSINESS MEN'S ASSURANCE CO. .... E..V. Lincoln, Special Agent . , -. -Box 108 Melrose Rt. Phone 938-J-4 cal. In other words. It cant be identified with a pat political doctrine, for political philosophies Become outmoded and die. Obviously, If liberalism means just the 19th century variety, it is practically dead today. If it means big government, it might wither away in some future time when trends perhaps veer in another direction. Couldn't it be possible that liberalism is really an attitude, a way of thinking" that shifts to meet the varying circumstances of an always changing society? But what sort of an attitude? The record of history suggests an answer. The men who have earned the liberal label seem to have had in common a bold will ingness to experiment, to try the new. to shatter old frameworks in quest of solutions to pressing human problems. By contrast, conservatives ap pear most often to search for answers within the existing struc ture of society. They may be no less concerned with solving human problems; they' simply are pre-disposed to solve them without breaking new ground. If a liberal is properly defined as a ground breaker, then in one era he may favor fewer govern ment restrictions and in another he might seek more. His eye is on the problems facing society. Ke feels no allegiance to any cause but their solution. Liberalism thus characterized is not a monopoly of any political party. It may exist side by side with conservatism and does in both major U. S. parties. By the same token, any individual may exhibit both liberal and con servative tendencies. But the liberal attitude must show itself in action If it Is to count. It is hardly enough to announce "I am a liberal," in the hope that you thereby establish yourself on a high plane of righteousness. You earn the label solely by seeking liberal solutions to problems. Furthermore, It Is . Just as honorable and important to be a conservative. Society is not al ways breaking new ground in all directions; much of the time it Is busy nurturing and improving ground already Broken. Liberalism and conservatism Deputy Sheriff For Canyonville Area Appointed HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NEW SHIPMENT OF Just Arrived! A New Shipment of Maple Furniture! . For Your Dining Room ... . For traditional maple see the new large-sized dining room set with its quaint Ship's Cap tain chairs and draw end ex tension table or other dining room sets with hutch type buf fets. Perhaps you'd prefer a small five-piece dinette set. Whatever your choice you'll al ways enjoy your maple furni ture just arrived now ot Carstens. You are invited now as always to drop in and browse around . , . poke and push the upholstered furniture, peer into the gleaming appliances . . . look at everything to your heart's content. No obligation and it doesn't cost a cent to look. ; For Your Bedroom . . . Here are complete five-piece . sets in distinctive styling or open stock lines including Pos ter and Jenny Lind beds . . . maple bunks beautifully styled. How about a Mr. and Mrs. set? . . . . And chests, well, we've three to six drawer chests and others you want to see. For YOUR bedroom you can't over look these maple furnishings. Complete maple Dining Room sets priced from 64.95. Other maple sets priced proportionately low. Your own terms within reason. H rr '. """i.'T. '. I FURNITURE 117 W. Cats Phono 10 s7 For Your Living Room . . . Delightfully gay colored homespun covers on maple arm davenos and swing rocker sets. Colonial styled end tables and cocktail tables , , . maple armless rockers . , . butterfly tables and all other pieces that moke a ma ple room truly a LIVING room. At Carstens of course! I l - '' Mf 1 IillMilMllt1l1l1lll1.Wi-ff't"'J-'-' Sheriff O. T. Bud Carter an nounced today that W. I. Worrall, above, has been appointed deputy shenlf for Canyonville, enective July 1. The new deputy has established an office in Canyonville, located on the corner south of the City Hall, formerly occupied by the Umpqua Jewelers. Worrall said the office will be open 24 hours a day. He emphasized that per sons residing in the area from Myrtle Creek south to the county boundary may contact his office represent our most fundamental attitudes toward life. They are natural tendencies that ought to be honestly expressed. Nothing is sillier than to regard liberasm automatically as a cloak of virtue. It is a sound, useful attitude; but it is not the only one a man of good will can have. John H. Lewis, Former Highway Engineer, Dies PORTLAND, July 13 UP) Johtn H. Lewis, 71, former state legislator and state highway engineer, died In a hospital here yesterday after a month's illness. A lawyer' as well as an engi neer, he was educated at Wil lamette university, Stanford and Cornell. He was slate highway engineer for 14 years, and also served as engineer for the . fed eral government. . In World War II, he was as sociated with the Portland hous ing authority, Lewis was active until his illness began a month ago. by phoning Canyonville 1211. Worrall, a former member of the Canyonville police depart ment, served as chief of police for nine months before his appoint ment. Previous law enforcement experience includes luty with the Colorado Deputies and the Los Angeles County Deputies Commission. Farm Training Attracts Yets Thirteen percent of all veter ans training in schools and on- the-job under the G. I. Bill and Public Law 16 are taking insti tutional on-farm training and other agricultural courses, the Veterans Administration reports. A recent study of the principal courses and employment obiee- tives of 2.535.385 World War II veterans in all types of training snowed mat d 10,876 were farm trainees. Institutional on-farm training, available to eligible veterans, combines organized eroim in struction In agricultural and re- laiea subjects with supervised work experience on the farm. While in training, veterans may receive monthly subsistence al lowances, varying with the num ber of horn's of instruction re ceived. 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