Observer, La Grand, Ore., Mon., Jan. 12, 1959 Page 4
LA GRANDE
Established 1896
La Grand, Oregon
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Published By the Grande Rondo Valley Publishing Company
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Entered as Second Claas Matter at the Pont Office of. La
Grande, Oregon Under the Act of March 8, 1897.
We're Still Staggered
When you look at that new Hag, it really hits home. Al
aska, the 49th state, is no longer a proposed addition to
the U.S.A. Its place in the union is a fact.
Even with all the mental preparation we've had, this
thing will still take some getting used to. Texas isn't the
biggest state any more, bureiy me statute 01 limitations
must have run out on a lot ol lexas jokes.
California doesn't have the highest mountain in the
country now, either. Mt. Whitney has to bow to Alaska's
Mt. McKinley, some b.uuu loci nigner. Alaska, clearly, is
going to steal the superlatives in many a field. Know any
place colder?
Perhaps the hardest adjustment is realizing that a mam
moth area today, part ot tnis country, is detached from the
other 48 states by some 1,500 miles. Kind of like building
a huge addition to your house at the back of your lot 100
yards lrom the main place.
Just give us a little time, you Alaskans, and we'll digest
this thing. After all, it's the biggest bile we've ever taken
at once.
A Basic Pride
7 Quite a few who examine American life closely today
wonaer wnemer our people, generally speaking, take a
suiiiciem pnue in uuiievuiiieiii.
As a nation we continue to get high marks for ingen
uity, resourcefulness, technical mastery. Yet there is evi
dence in a good many places that as individuals some Am
ericans show little interest in, or respect for, solid accom
plishment.
Dr. James R. Killian, President Eisenhower's too scien
tific adviser, took note of this matter recently when he
said Americans need to develop a higher regard for learn
ing and a fuller pride in achievement.
What counts, he said, is the importance Americans at
tach to the "factor of excellence" in our society.
Disquieting, signs exist that ; a lot of us don't worry
nearly enough about excelling in the things we do, wheth
er it's runing a business, making a product, trying a law
suit, clerking in a store, holding down a government job,
or Keeping nouse. ,
There are at least a couple of things involved in this.
One is how we as individuals feel about trying not
simply to do what we may vaguely cleiine as "our best,"
but to meet clear standards of excellence. If we do not
think it is good or necessary to succeed by that test, then
pur pride of accomplishment is indeed sadly limited.
)- The game of getting through the day, the week, and the
month, of drawing pay for routine effort, is one that may
lure us all at times, but nothing great was ever built or
sustained that way.
- The day that becomes the American's general philos
ophy pt me, the Kusslans can lick us without tiring a shot.
' Tjhe second thine is how we look upon others who excel.
Do we respect them for their attainments? Or do we try
to downgrade and belittle them, to treat them with sus
picion because they are "not like us"?
,; If we should ever, as a pebple, seriously entertain the
- idea mat to oe superior in any endeavor is to be odd, to be
deserving ot scorn and ridicule, then we might as well
fold up our tents. For this world will prove too tough for
us.
More than ever, the race-today is to the swift. We not
only had better be swift, but if we wish to gain that end
we had better learn to think well of those among us who
already are.
Barbs
' The little boy who took his watch apart to see how it
worked is now the hid who takes his cur apart to see
why it doesn't work.
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