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Thursday, September i-, 1955
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VISUAL PE R C E P T IO N P a rt 10
T he hum an laxly is equipped
ASSOCIATION
w ith various m echanism s, which
help to m ain tain a sta te of equil
NATIONAL AOVE.KTUIINO RJCPRrJMBN TAT1VE
ibrium . Should any of these p ro
tective system s b reak down, th*
W eekly N ewspapers R epresentatives , I nc .
body would b r throw n into im
New York
Chicago
Dotrolt
Philadelphia
m ediate danger.
So long as we enjoy go<xl health,
we ta k e these protective, or self
rep airin g processes for granted,
“Can you as a newspaper morally stand by and and often abuse th'* laxly beyond
its lim its of flexability, hut the
watch this government secrecy?” llia t was a question m
om ent any p a rt ceases to fun
put to us after the council meeting last Thursday night, ction norm ally, o r causes distress,
th a t p a rt im m ediately becomes
w hen the interested spectators, and die press, were asked th
e focus of our atten tion.
to leave the council chambers.
Most of us have th e habit of
cu rsin g the very protective de
It is a difficult question to answer, because we vices and laxly functions, which
are so convinced that the council is sincerely trying to p rotect o u r h ealth and happiness,
because they cause us m om entary
do .1 job here in the city that we actually hate to I k distress or inconvience
F o r examjih* perspiration, which
critical in any way.
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is p erhaps A m erica’s g reatest
Yet, we believe so strongly in having all bus cause of fear, anxiety, society gos
sip and cleaning hills, Is not apt
iness conducted out in the open that we do have a moral to lx* fully appreciated, yet its
duty to object when asked to leave a council meeting— function is necessary to m aintain
of body m inerals, tem p
special or otherwise. We object mainly because the city e a ra balance
tu re , e tc A tooth-aeh© sends
voters passed by a four to one majority, just a year ago, us to the dentist before the tooth
a charter which sjKCifies in it, with no qualifications: is com pletely destroyed by decay.
O r a head-ache w arn s us that we
Chapter IV, Section 16: Quote, “All meetings to be a re ov ertax in g o u r nervous sys
public. All deliberations and proceedings of tlu* council tem , stra in in g our eyes, or not
e a tin g properly, etc.
shall he public.” Unquote.
T hese a re but a few of the
m any w ays the body has of m ain
What could I k clearer that that? And yet, taining equilibrium T hese proc
one councilman at the meeting suggested the following esses, for the most part, a re be
action: “We should get together with Elmer Bankus yond o u r control, and a re not.
fo rtu n ately ,
subjected
to
the
at a closed meeting
d ictates of the "w ill”.
T here are tim es when the "w 11"
And what purpose would that serve? The by superceding the protective
voters elected the councihnen, and expect them to up m echanism s of th© body prom otes
preservation, hut for the most
hold the charter—not to flaunt it in their face. The p self
art, w ithout o u r realizing it, it
council will ask the [Kople to pay the hill, but yet, is it is in stru m e n ta l in bringing about
laxly d eterio ratio n .
possible they won’t allow’ them to sit in on the deliber a general
If one touches som ething hot.
ations?
there is an im m ediate response, to
pull aw ay. It is said, th a t this
Again, we feel nothing but kindness towards kind of r<*spoiis<* takes place in
tin mayor and the council. We understand their prob th e stim u lated area. Psychologists
th a t the stim ulation sig
lems. We real ize the terrific amount of time and work contend,
nal does not e n te r th e brain until
they are putting in, without compensation, in an effort a f te r th e incident has taken place.
to do good for the city. We believe in their personal If then reg isters as pain. T he con
trol center, which d irects the re-
integrity and honesty. We are convinced they are trying sjionse is located in the spine. Due
to do the tight thing—but having a closed meeting on to conditioning process, however,
relk*x actions can, to som e degre*?,
am subject is one we can’t go along with.
b“ brought u n der the dom ination
of the "w ill.” a m ore detailed
In w riting us, please let us know account of how th is is brought
in parenthesis, w hat town the se r about, w ould la* irre le v a n t to the
vice person is from, and g iw the present discussion.
com plete address as it ap pears on
N early everyone has ex p erien
his statio n ary and w here in the ced touching som ething hot with
‘S everal of the “boys and g i r l s ’ w orld they are located as the
th e ir finger and je rk in g th e ir hand
from m ir <K'iglilH>rlio(Hi are in th e offiaial address does not alw ays
hack, w ithout th in k in g about it.
'" e, I forces and get th e PIL O T , indicate
On the o th e r hand, if a hungry
eiil > , through direct m ail o r sent
W’e will welcome names from |x*rson w ere to pick up a k e ttle
i" ’ >i Man,\ were “kids” here
of stew, and the stew m eant the
in
They are a long way all of (Tarry C ounty and N o rth ern
Del N orte If the list gets too big difference betw een a good meal
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>mv K v m s in g le one o f
th
welconi < word from o th ers we may have to run it in sections. and sta rv a tio n , he w ouldn’t lx* apt
Addness: V eteran, PILO T, Box to drop it, even if holding on
t'n know w herever in tin* world
338,
Brookings, Oregon.
m eant g ettin g his fingers burned.
tli
m.i\ he stationed, (.’lost* bv
In such a case, the '‘w ill'' to live
could li<‘ a schoolmate. As a eer-
<• tli.'m the PILO T will en-
T he m any friends of Miss Ros.* would su fvreede reflex resfxmses
It is g ra n te d th at th© “will"
publish such nam es and B um garten will be happy to know
dix'S
have its ad v an tag es hut when
■ is ,ire sent in, only axk- she rep o rts sh e’s quite happy and
’ I t we a ie notified of a iv "Just f in e ' Miss Rose is in a the »will to get ah ead" d rives »
jx’ison on to continue w orking,
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so we may Iwx'p it a real Salem Rest Home.
long a fte r the txxlj has cried out
I need rest," it is not function
ing in the best interest of the
person concerned To force the
body to strain , at a task, beyond
its lim its can as we all know,
cause serious harm T he harm
done can cans»* th e fx*rson to
spend m onths in the hospital And
all lx* cans© th* “w ill" or "ego"
dom inated the body’s w arning
sy stem
The present topic may. at first
sight, a p p ear irrelev an t to art, but
ju st th«* opposite is actually tru e
Visual jx'reeption. which is the
basis of the visual arts, defvnds
on. not ju st on©, but many biolog
ical factors
To a tte m p t to und erstan d vis
ual perception as an isolated suh-
ject, rem o w d from the to tal dyn
am ic process, of w hich it is a part
would lx* to not really understand
it at all Every thing in life has
som ething elswx and vision o r art
are not exception»
We are all aw are, th a t th ere
is a groat difference betw een a
«fc'timtion and a ‘conscious u n
d e rsta n d in g ” of a fact Too often
we a re inclined to accept a def-
inition ot words, for no e x p la n
ation. In such a case, w hat we
accept is a logical sequence of
w onts, th a t sound fa m ilia r or
“hom ey" By skillful juggling, a
•h'fm ition can apjx*ar to “really
E«4aral £••«■« *•«*«»
m ake aenav* w ithout throw ing a
light on th e n a tu ra l processes.
assoc ^ t ^ n
What About Government Secrecy ?
Address Of Men
In Servin* Welcome
w hich th e w ords refer to. For ex
am ple, in » th e first a rtic le of th e
pr.*s?nt series, I quoted W e b ste r’.;
definition of visual perception.
Some would ta k e for g ranted, th a t
W ebster had really explained it.
They m ay unconsciously feel th a t
the dictionary* had said all th e re
was to say, w hile others, w ho at©
sem an tic conscious, w ould rec
ognize its lim itations, Ten articles,
of th e present series, have a lre a ry
been w ritten , and still visual p e r
ception has not been explained.
W hen we know how visual p er
ception functions, we shall know
w hat it is No am ount of v e rb a l
izing can define it, because it is
not a thing hut a process. W hen
we know how it behaves, in re
lation to th e to tal system , w© will
at last, be closer to understanding
w hat visual fx*rception is.
Mr. and Mrs. John Barclay art*
vacationing in th e E ugene area,
th e ir fo rm er home.
Mr. and Mrs. E arl M arshal,, of
P ort land,dropped in briefly to pick
iif) d a ta on the back country. Mr.
M arshall and his b ro th e r gold
mined, successfully, in th? Baby-
foot co u n try nearly 50 y ears ago.
Mr. and Mrs. M arshall a re both
wild flow er e n th u sia sts and w ere
accu m u latin g ground w ork for i
long "held” vacation, next sum m er
herring. But it w as fun and now i; > f • r cap ita th ,,n any o th e r
th a t I know the ocean is th* re city - 'h e w o rld ,b arrin g none.
I'll be out m ore often. The II i- P oki: gs a com m unity of 3.000
h as ve T hun lerb ird s sh o o t-
bergs w ere fishing nearby, and •
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d iff rent colors
they had reeled in six. including a
>. /c ry sin k in g .
p re tty good sized one.
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All th. h eat hack eaBt should
Incidently. whvn I w as sinking
th e blues about losing a pip!* or •‘ ■art a m ig ratio n o a t to O regon,
tw o th e o th e r week, some kind f I ’m any judge of hum an n a tu re .
we coui.l only tip off the people
h earted soul read th • story w ith
in terest and brought me down i J a ’ th e n isn’t one air-condition-
un r in Brookings, and th a t
new pipe. Isn ’t th at friendly Now
c m n fan s a r • n o n -existant here,
this u v e k I thought I would cry
a little about money. I'm hoping i n. i as h a 1 a w orking m an as
som ebody will bring some down I am. I hav * only perspired once
this y ar. and th a t w as clim bing
in a sack
t Vulcan Peak. Let us s ta r t to
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i
oru aro .nd atxiut th e
We heard a re p o rt from one of
Sunday afternoon I had an op
clim
ate
here.
po rtu n ity to mak© like a fish e r th e T hunderbird ow ners in town
man. F o r th e first tim ? since th a t Brookings has m ore T hunder-
com ing to B rookings over a y e a r
ago, I got out on the blue P a c
ific. Glye Jensen, a well known
family man, has a boat w ith a
m otor, and took old Joe out in an
endeavor to bring back a salm on
T h e re ’s a pack o’ p lea sure in every* h a n d y c a rto n o f
or two.
ja e tnaisifiduf,
now for Olympia!
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re fre s h in g O ly m p ia Beer. Be su re to b r in g hom e e n u u g h l
Shooting the m outh of the C het-
co w as a m ite rough, but we m ade
it w ithout any real d a n g e r of
being sw am ped. Howevvr, it w as
very rough when we got out
a ways. The w aves w ere, gen©rally
speaking as big as the pro v erb
ial house, anti then when you get
on tof), you hav© to come down,
much to the dism ay of the sto m
ach. Being an old sea-dog, and
used to inhaling th e fum es from
my pipe, I did n ’t get sea-sick
but I was tem ped to from tim e
to time.
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Gyle snagged a real beauty,
possibly a 22 pounder, but whvn
he brought him alongside he slip-
fa d the hook, at th e sam e tim e
Gyle gaffed him, and th e fish w as
on his way. O th e r th a n th a t we
didn't do any good, not even a
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