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o FOURTEEN MTDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE V e i- LOSING NO TIME Simulating actual battle conditions off North Carolina coast, U. S. submarine surfaces, disembarks combat-loaded Marines in rubber rafts and starts to submerge from under them. Marines will then infiltrate "enemy" beach. (U. S. Marina photo from NEA Telephoto) As We Live Success Requires Mere Than Good Fortune Alone When a person gets ahead in the world, it is common for peo ple to explain his success by say ing, "e geis all the breaks" or "He was i horn under a I , i . iucsj suar. They credit his success entire ly to luck. The old say ing, "It is more man agement Dr. Herlock than luck," is often twisted to read, "It is more luck than management." Which is correct? Looking 'at successful people from the outside, you readily conclude they were the product of luck. If you look below the surface, however, you see some . thing else: a combination of plan ning, foresight and hard work placing the successful person in the path of success. While successful man may seem to get all the breaks, he usually deserves them. He has worked hard, prepared himself to advance higher, and created thf) impression of being worthy of advancement. It hasn't been luck at all. In the same way, the woman who rises socially is not influ enced by a lucky sxar. She planned and worked for success. Sh devoted hours to commit tees and voluntary organizations. She was nice to many people whom she disliked. Eventually Late J. H. Pruett's Final Article Discusses Pleiades To tht Editor: So thi is "thirty" for my very dear brother's stories. Perhaps you know that he left us a few days ago. He had written this story just a few days before that. Broke my heart to type it. but thought you mlcht want to use it. Delia P. BlaisdeU .. Typist for 1. H. Prueti By J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer. Extension Division 0 Oregon Higher Education System As soon as a clear Indian-summer day of mid-October has faded into night, search the hori zon somewhat north of due east. If your eyesight is good and the horizon is not too hazy, you will seem to note a tiny white cloud sending its tremulous light .through the great spaces to you. A little later when this object has come up higher in the sky, and is then more nearly due east, if will be easy to 'detect that you are looking at a small group of tiny stars almost in the shape of a little dipper. Some errone ously call this the Little Dipper but that designation properly be Q longs to a configuration around the North Star. We might call this third dipper the Tiny Dip per. This bewitching little asterism has been well known since an cient times. The poets of the Roman,. Grecian and Hebrew times affectionately called it the Pleiades (Plee-ya-deez," with ac cent on the first syllable). Tenny son wrote of them as they "rise through the mellow shade" glit ter like a swarm of fireflies, tangled in a silver braid." The Hebrew Job asked, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?" Milton wrote, "Be for him danced . . . the Pleiades, yielding sweet influences." Tribute To Group . A modern western poetess has written this beautiful tribute to the charming little group: "A goddess has lost her neck lace Of topazes, wondrously fair And it lies shimmering tan gle on heaven's blue tapis- tried stair." j Poets have often referred to ! the Pleiades as the Seven Sis- j ters, or the Seven Stars. Most i eyes now-a-days can detect only . six stars in this little group. It ; is thought that one of them may j have faded considerably since i ancient times.. Some very acute eyes make out not only .seven stars, but nine or even 11 Plei ades. ' But the use of only slight op tical aid, such as low-power opera glasses, brings a great sur- prise. The six stars become a dozen or more. With his 7x50 prism binoculars, this writer has counted 61 easily detected stars. Strong ' telescopes show hun dreds, but only about 500 of these are thought actually to be long in the Pleiades group. These stars are receding from our lo cality in space at the. rate of about five miles per second. I23BBP ... By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. she won social success, but through her own effort, not luck. LETTERS FROM READERS Seeing Worst: "Why is it some people always seem to look for the worst in everyone and every thing?" C. R. - (A) People who look for the worst usually base their attitude on past experiences which proved unfavorable. For exam ple, the person who always ex pects a party to be ruined by weather is likely to have had parties ruined by weather in the past. Similarly, skepticism about people derives mainly from un fortunate experiences with peo ple. Card Playing: "My wife be longs to three bridge clubs and spends most of her afternoons playing bridge. I don't object to this, within reason, but I feel she is wasting her time playing so much." H.S. . (A) If your wife doesn't neg lect her home and family, 1 think you're being unfair to criticize her for wanting to be with friends and have a good time in the afternoons. Bridge playing is often a means of bringing together congenial peo ple. Your wife obviously enjoys companionship with other wom en. Therefore, she belongs to bridge clubs. Puttering: "My mother lives with us .and wants to help with the housework. However, she is such a putterer that she's really very little .help. Should I en courage her to continue to 'help' when she does so little?" Mrs. B.S. Given enough time and we can no longer see them. The distance to the Pleiades is usually given as 500 light-years. Some investigators make it a lit tle less. This means that they are so exceedingly distant that light, traveling 186,300 miles per second, requires , 500 years to reach us. In classical mythology the Pleiades were the seven daugh ters of old Atlas, the gaint who carried the world on his shoul ders. Orion used to torment them byv running after them, but Jupiter changed them to doves so they might fly to the safety of the heavens. aTimirtlle HAS A LEAK-PROOF ROOF, BUT HOW ABOUT YOU? M OST PEOPLE aren't as lucky as turtles. Our roofs spring' leaks. And if you question the condition of your roof, now is the time to get it in shape for the rough winter months ahead. r INANCING? Jackson County Federal has funds available for home improvements of all kinds. Just drop- in and ask. SAVINGS p LOAN Since HO. 126 East Main Medford . Sunday, October 9, 1955 (A) Of course you should en courage your mother to ..help. And you should be grateful she wants to help. 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