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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The senior class of Old Medford will walk ut into the cold, cruel, and Biessed up world armed with a diploma May 28. 23 YEARS AGO AprU 19, 1937 (Monday) Arrangements completed for the quadriennial state conven tion of the Royal Neighbors of America. The Rogue River Valley Can ning company canned and sold about 30,000 cases of Bartlett pears this week in connection with Pear Week. 30 YEARS AGO AprU 19, 1927 (Tuesday) The Jackson County Traffic association and the Medford Chamber of Commerce work to gether to organize a fruitgrow ers' League of Jackson county. J. C. Thompson elected direc tor in charge f the Medford Chamber of Commerce member ship campaign. 40 YEARS AGO AprU 19, 1917 Three-year plan for construc tion of forest roads in Jackson county announced by state high way department, according to district forester Cecil. City council orders Police Chief Hittson to remove all portable signs from sidewalks in front of stores and hallways. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en er eight Is excellent: five er six Is good. 1. The first printing establish ment west of the Rocky Moun tains was set up in Washington, California or Oregon? 2. In measuring horses, what is the length of a "hand?" 3. Bible: To whom did the Lord say "Go forth now to meet Ahaz?" 4. Six cylinder automobile engines operate on the four-cycle principle; on what principle do eight-cylinder a u t o m o bile en gines operate? 5. In which country is the newspaper Pravda published? 6. What country controls the Sea of Azov? 7. Which do cooks regard as more tender and tasty calf liver or beei liver? 8. A fortnight is a week end, two weeks, or one month? 9. The adverb "maybe" may be properly used as one or two words in a sentence; true or false? 10. "The auld kirk-hammer strak the bellSome wee short hour ayant the twal." Burns. What is a "kirk-hammer" and "twal?" Answers: 1. Oregon (Walla Walla, 1839). 2. Four inches. 3. Isaiah. 4. The same four-cycle principle. 5. Soviet Russia. 6.Sov iet Russia. 7. Calf liver. 8. Two weeks. 9. False. One word only. 10. Church-hammer; twelve. A REVOLTIN' DEVELOPMENT Myrtle Beach, S.C. U.PJ The Civitan Club appointed a committee to go out and find a "Miss Myrtle Beach" to enter the state beauty contest because no contestants entered a bathing beauty contest they had spon sored, s MAIL TRIBUNE Who s Crazy Now? Unreasoning suspicion, dreams and delusions of grandeur, a failure to assume responsibility, and a strong tendency to have unresolvable and conflicting viewpoints have long been recognized as symptoms of mental illness. Actually, we are convinced that everyone has moments of mental unbalance. It may be no more than the mental equivalent of a cold in the head, but we all are familiar with periods of depression, the dreams of glory and wealth, the inordinate suspicions, which, if earned to an extreme, carry a person over the blurred line between what we call "sanity" and "in sanity." a e e e e A PHYSICIAN now comes up with the theory that " whole cities, as well as individuals, can suffer from a form of mental illness. Dr. Andrew S. Tomb of Texas, a general prac titioner who has worked with the American Psychi atric association to broaden the family doctors' fa miliarity with mental illness, declared that towns can, in fact, get emotionally sick, just like humans, and that this can adversely affect the mental health of their people. He classed some towns as schizoid clinging to the past, yet wanting new and better things. They re fuse to vote school bonds, for example, but on the other hand resent and reject split-shifts and over crowding in schoolrooms. ZITHER towns can become psychopathic in reject ing responsibility, idling along with no regrets and no worries for the future. Some are in a "depres sive phase" of social and economic decadence, while others are manic boom-towns, growing too fast with out enough schools, streets, health facilities, police protection, and so on or so says the doctor. ! Yet he believes that these "community mental ills" can be spotted and corrected. And he thinks that a town's doctors have a real role to play in diagnosis and cure. When a town is suffering from such an ailment, he declares, its effects show up in the doctors' patients as individuals, as well as in broader, more public symptoms. THIS is an interesting theory. That cities do run "higher temperatures" at some times (such as just before a crucial election) than at others, is certainly evident in newspaper offices. And that there are periods of "depression," emo tional as well as economic, and periods of general optimism and satisfaction, is equally evident. The temper of an entire community can be af fected by external events, just as is true with indi viduals. TF THE good doctor's diagnosis is cfrrect, how would we go about diagnosing Medford's current health? Generally speaking, we would say that it is going through a period of mild and generalized depression and worry. The lumber market is still slow. The wea ther has been spotty, with a few gorgeous days sand wiched in between periods of cold and rain. There are too many people temporarily out of work. A rash of juvenile depredations by a small minority of our young people has caused worry and soul-searching among those genuinely concerned with, the coming generation. It has divided (schizoid?) feelings about a lot of public affairs. It wants the best possible school system, yet is concerned over the tax level. The same conflict is apparent regarding all the other services the city provides. It wa!hts the benefits of a good highway freeway, yet is unconvinced that a route through the middle of town is the best place for it. e rESPITE these symptoms, however, we would pro- nounce Medford's mental health GOOD. It has a strong and generous heart (which, no matter what doctors might say, is a real necessity for true sanity). "When the chips are down it usually makes the right decision. It has not for many years gotten itself into a dam aging, knock-down-and-drag-out donnybrook, leav ing unhealed scars. For the past decade or so, it has talked out its differences with itself, and come out of it healthier and better-equipped tcface the inevit able problems of the future. No, Medford isn't ready for the asylum yet. We don't foresee the day when it will be. E.A. Disrespect for Law There has been a spirited debate going on in our "Communications" column juvenile delinquency what it is, what causes it, and how to cope with it There is, of course, no single answer to as broad and complicated a problem and one of such im portance to our future as this. DUT we ran across a comment the other day which illuminates one phase of William B. McKesson of Juvenile Court Judges. He said : Why do kids break the law? They see adults doing it and getting away v.ith it! We don't need to waste our time wringing our hands in holy horror over the "goings-on" of youth when we proudly boast of how we "fooled the cop," "talked him out of a ticket," "slipped one over on the in come tax department," or took advantage of a "legal loop hole." Little pitchers still have big ears, and many a young ster gets his attitude about disrespect for law right in his own home or from some adult he admires. E.A. Friday, April 19, 1957 in recent days regarding it, certainly. It is by Judge the National Council of i n i 1 'OPEN THIS DOOR AT OHCll' Babson Discusses Education, BY ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Fla. Let me first apoligize to the millions of readers of my column for my c r 1 1 icism oi Aff-U. I high school I 'M'lK I teachers. I wiiiie mey are urging higher pay and new ' b u i 1 d i n gs, their products are inferior to the products of Roger w. Babson 40 years ago. My experience had been largely with girls supposedly trained for secretarial work, but who can not read intelligently, spell cor rectly, do fractions, typewrite ef ficiently, or use correct English. One day about a year ago. Mr. J. C. Council, Publisher of the Tampa Tribune, decided to make a practical test of the H i 1 ls borough County High school. He explained to the teachers of these and other high school what he was endeavoring to accomplish and how it should be done. He selected three dates, the last of March, and engaged one of the large Fair buildings having ex hibit booths. Each high school class was asked to make an ex hibit of some existing or future scientific problem. They could make a television set, or an elec tric burner, or an electric eye, or something else already exist ing. Or, these students could imagine and illustrate some new invention that may come in the future. Each class was assigned a booth with tables and elec trical connections. The day I was there, teachers were present and the students came in 50 school busses. A few could not help pinching and ex ploding some balloons for weath er forecasting. Otherwise, these several thousand students be haved excellently. With my fur ther apology to the girls I found the grand prize was taken by a girl, Barbara Buerke. How ever, she was not trained to be a "secretary" but a commercial artist. Frankly, I was emotional ly moved to see the great in terest and intelligence that most of thse students showed. I came home bullish on our youth if they are allowed to work on sub jects in which they are interested under the "Core" teaching as advocated by Dr. Arthur Combs of the University of Flordia. Selecting Future Leaders Of course, there were great differences among these boys and girls. Most of them followed the crowd and stopped only at booths surrounded by many peo ple. Others were satisfied to col lect free circulars and pictures. These were the boys who should be content to always do manual work and the .girls who should aim to be good wives and moth ers. Many of these youths, how ever, had brought notebooks and made drawings on certain ex hibits they were very serious. For some strange reason, the majority of them had red hair or were blond! Each year the three colleges which my family sponsors, Bab son Institute for Men, Webber College for Women, and the Mid West Institute, are visited by per sonnel directors of large cor porations seeking the best grad uates. They look first for grad uates of good character who have done well in their' extra-curricular work and have perhaps become officers of their classes. They want graduates with in itiative rather than those con tent with making good marks. After my day with these Tampa youths I am sure that these per sonnel "scouts" should start by Thomas H. Emmens,M.D. Announces the Association of John T. Weisel, M.D. Practice Limited to Eye 301 FLUHRER BLDG. didn't work. Teaching discovering such students when they are in high school, rather than wait until they are about to graduate from college. That High Schools Need Truly this group of Tampa young people with whom I as sociated are a "gold mine." I could pick out the leaders of Tampa's future without looking at their examination papers or marks. I found, however, that some of the boys whom I would select were not popular with their teachers. Perhaps some of the students felt that their teach ers are not too able and are in terested only in their salary and not in their students. It is a com mon thing to know people who have a "green thumb" with flow ers or a way with animals; they can get first prizes' in flower shows and can easily train anim als. This is not because they are better educated in horticulture or biology, but because they love flowers and love animals. The same principle may apply to teachers, I wish that publishers in each of the 400 cities carrying my weekly column could follow the example of J. C. Council of the Tampa Tribune. I realize that a few other cities are already hold ing similar "Fairs," but it would be a wonderful thing if such "Fairs" could take place once a year, or at least once in four years, in each of these 400 cities. The program would fill a great need in most communities. It would be greatly appreciated by teachers and graduates. It would help to hold these high school graduates within their own state for a college education, rather than lose them to some other community. One More Thought I believe more attention should be given to higher post-graduate work two years following col lege. In order to secure appropri ations, presidents of State Un iversities appear to feel that they must have as large an enrollment as possible. Naturally, the aver age native intelligence decreases as the number of students in creases. This tends to reduce the standards for graduation. As a result, these more efficient students too often do not return to the cities which educated them. They take post-graduate work in some other state and then remain there. I am not rul ing out a higher education for those fitted only for trades or manual work. I, however, am arguing that the future of every city depends on holding the most efficient and ablest students. Cities brag too much about their population totals when their fu ture really depends on the char acter, initiative and efficiency of their high school graduates. Let us hold these young people at home in the cities which raised them. Editorial Comment THE TAX CUT CHORUS Along about this time of year, every year, some members of congress sing a song of tax-cutting. It's an alluring song. It has a lilt which catches the ear of every overburdened taxpay er. And who doesn't belong in this category? ... Certainly, the budget is big And there is waste that should be eliminated. But before we be come too scandalized at the size of it, let's remember that in re lation to the gross national pro duct it is smaller than in some ing of Jordanian Crisis Tops , List of Good, Bad News of Week Bv CHARLES M. MrTlNN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: Twenty-one-year-old King Hus sein of Jordan won a victory over the leftist - slanted, pro- 12lT!?fI Egyptian ele ments ,i n his government and armed forces who had threatened his throne. After ousting Premier Sulei m a n Nabulsi, leader of his Charles McCa.no political ene mies, Hussein named moderate, pro-Western Hussein Fakhri Kha lidi as his successor. Hussein then fired Maj. Gen. Ali Abu Nuwar, his chief army opponent, as chief of staff. In Nuwar's place Hussein named Maj. Gen. Ali Hayyari, leader of loyal army forces. Disarmament Hopes Rise . Hope rose that a United Na tions disarmament committee, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name, and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Parents Need More Nerve To the Editor: I want to heartily endorse Mrs. Jane Gil laspie's letter in the Sunday Mail Tribune regarding the Ki wanis Committee to try to re move harmful magazines from the newsstands. A committee cannot do what the parents of children reading the trash are unable or unwill-. ing to do. When we parents set our children the right example and at least try to enforce some sort of standards for our chil dren, instead of letting them do what the "rest of the kids' are doing, then possibly a commit tee to curb juvenile delinquency can accomplish something to ward removing objectionable matter from newsstands, T.V. and movies. If we parents are too busy about our own concerns or too lax in our own standards, why should we expect juvenile au thorities and committees, and school teachers to make our chil dren over after we have started them in wrong habits? Even when we take our responsibili ties seriously, it is hard enough to raise teen agers .these days when a car is a necessity and they can do so many things we didn't have an opportunity to do The other day, an excellent instructor in a class I am taking at Southern Oregon college said that as teachers it would be our duty to cultivate the pupils' taste for the better music, litera ture, and art, to wean them away from the trash that is so available on every hand. But what can a teacher do against the more popular radio, T.V., movies, comic books, plus in different parents? It looks hope less to me. As the mother of two teen age sons who are just as independent-minded as any of them (maybe a little more so) I can agree with the mother of a boy who got into trouble and was sent to MacLaren School (also a letter in Sunday M.T.) when she said a father should give his children love and companion ship, instead of feeling he has done enough to feed and clothe them. Many times our ranch work has been neglected in favor of Dad helping the boys with their projects, this from the days when they were tod dlers till Scouts and 4-H age. past years. And let us remem ber too that for the third year in the row the budget will be balanced. As Columnist Roscoe Drum mond has said, "The president's budget is not a desire for large spending per se, but a recogni tion of the imperatives of the cold war, a determination to use conservative methods to meet social needs, not to neglect them, and a conviction that con servatives can hold the reins of government only by so doing.'' Despite aU the flurry, we pre dict that what congress will do to the budget in the end will be considerably less than sensa tional. And we predict that the siren song of the tax-cutter will fade away over the hill for an other year. Oregon Journal. LR North Hiway 99 OPEN UNTIL EASTER HAMS 55'u. meeting in London, might get started soon, after years oi ei fort on the first stage of reduc ing the armaments of the great powers. President Eisenhower disclosed at a press conference in Wash ington that Harold Stassen, chief American delegate at the London conference, had sent a most opti mistic report of prospects. Stassen told the President that the atmosphere in the talks had improved and that the negotia tions were in the most serious that is, the most promising sit uation since the end of World War II. Makarios Comes To Athens . Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Greek-Cypriotes who want Great Britain to turn over the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to Greeee, arrived in Athens and was welcomed as a national hero. Britain, in a new attempt to negotiate a settlement of the dispute, had released Makarios from internment on an Indian Ocean island. But prospects for a settlement seemed remote. Makarios said on his arrival in the Greek capital This may have been to the detri ment of income financially but it certainly has paid off in keep ing two high-spirited boys oc cupied and out of trouble. We parents just can't shift our responsibility to others, even though the old "rod in the hand" discipline is out with the horse and buggy. There are other lev ers just as effective if we have nerve to face the storm of teen age disapproval. I remember telling my Dad he was out of date, and that all the other kids did this and that! Mrs. Lawson Scott Jr., Route 3, Box 240-C, Medford, Ore. Why Not Pay for Blood? To the Editor: In connection with a recent article in your issue of Friday, April 12, .con cerning the lack of blood donors in this area, I should like to make the following comment: During the mid-thirties "vhile stationed in the Navy at Pearl Harbor, T.H., I recall that one of the larger hospitals in Hono lulu always had a plentiful sup ply of both blood and donors. mainly from servicemen, by the simple expedient of paying each donor promptly and cheerfully the sum of $5 for each pint of blood they gave. I feel quite sure if a local permanent blood bank were .set up on the same basis, it would succeed in bringing in a suffi cient number of donors and if, say, a sum of $10 were paid for each pint of blood the amount would be more than sufficient for this area. Since, hospitals charge their patients for blood given them; I see no logical rea son why the donor should not also receive something for giv ing it. At least it would be worth a try. D. W., (Name on File) Central Point, Ore. He Signs His Name To the Editor: Mr. A. U. seems to think because it was a police officer involved, that he couldn't be wrong. For your edification Mr. "A.U." let me say that r gardless who you are you can be wrong as well as the next per son. I do not know any one con nected with this case. Perhaps the lady was in the wrong, perhaps the officer1 was, I don't know. I do know that because a man swears to obey, support and uphold the law, it doesn't make him invulnerable to mistakes. Would you say Mr. A. U. that the two officers in California that were convicted of rape were upholding the law? Or that the ' one in Oklahoma convicted of murder was obey ing the law? Or the one here in Medford convicted of stealing was supporting the law? Maybe this will give you one of those infrequent belly laughs. I have read several of your letters to the Editor and ad mired most of them. This last one leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Also Mr. A. U., I am signing my name. Joe Cabler, Box 668, Jacksonville, Ore. DTV MARKET Half Way Between Medford and Central Point 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS WEEK END SPECIALS SWEET, JUICY Oranges 5 49 that he intended to intensify the fight to compel Britain to give up Cyprus. Turkey indicated clearly that it is unlikely to agree to any Cyprus settlement which would be satisfactory to Makar ios and to Greece. Cyprus is only about 45 miles from the Turkish mainland and nearly 600 from Greece. Greece never has pos sessed Cyprius. If Britain ever gives it up Turkey wants it. Turkey ruled Cyprus for cen turies before Britain took it over. Jordan The struggle in Jordan be tween King Hussein and his ene mies had not only threatened the young monarch personally but had brought the possibility of a war involving Arab countries' and Israel that might have ended Jordan's short life as a nation. For months, pro-Communist, anti-Western elements in the gov ernment and army had been in control of Jordan's policies. They had allied themselves with Pres ident Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. There had been Increasingly clear indications in recent weeks, however, that Hussein and mod erates who support him were challenging the leftist control. This challenge was brought to the showdown point when Hus sein ousted Premier Nabulsi. For the present, at least, pro- Western Hussein is top man. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The spending policies of the federal government that is to say, whether to spend more and tax more or to spend less and tax less are obviously growing in importance as a national issue. They have reached the point of argument in the Eisenhower family. EDGAR, Ike's older brother, told reporters the other day he is "mystified" about the ad ministration's fiscal policies and said he would like to discover what influences are at work to have apparently changed his brother's mind about government spending. He said he can't understand "what persuaded Dwight to go for all that big budget this year" after having promised in cam paign speeches to try to decrease government spending. " Edgar, however, denied pub lished reports that he believed at one time that another brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, was re sponsible for the P r e s i dent's switch to liberal views on spend ing. "The only thing I know about Milton's feelings on the matter were the remarks he made in a speech to a group of educators." THAT brought Brother Earl irk to the picture. He spoke up in defense of Edgar's right to criticize the fed eral'budget. He added: "I wouldn't say I agree with Edgar about the size of the budget, but I think federal aid to higher education would be a tragedy. Fdgar, however, has a right to say what he pleases." WHAT of Ike? Ike laughed it off in his usual good-humored manner, say ing" in Washington this morning: "Edgar has been criticizing me since I was five years old." . The Eisenhower family, you see, is a typical American family with this difference: What ever ANY Eisenhower says is BIG NEWS. LET'S get down now to the nub of the issue. What about Ike and his views on spending which admittedly DO seem to have changed quite a little recently? FOR a possible answer to that question, let's turn to Cactus Jack Garner, former vice-pes-ident, who is now living in quiet and apparently happy retirement on his ranch in Texas. He was interviewed a while back by one of the editors of U. S. News and World Report. Questioned on this same subject (of Ike's seeming change of views on government) he expressed im mense respect for the President. He then added in substance: We must remember that Pres ident Eisenhower is a dedicated nrnfessional soldier. The creed of thp dedicated Drofessional sold ier is to GET THE JOB DONE regardless of what it costs. That is his training. That is th: crushing responsibility that rests on nis snouiaers mrougn out all of his professional life. 3 JAYS MILK Economy Gallon Size 84' 4
