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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago. -
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 23, 1948 (Sunday)
No changes expected in
policy or personnel, it was
reDorted following the read
ing of the will of. the late
Phyllis Swearingen, part own
er of the hospital, who died
last week.
Camping facilities for an
increased number of young
neoDle at Camp Lake of the
Woods will be available this
summer, the Salvation Army
announces.
.20 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1938 (Monday)
County Commissioner Otto
Caster, Phoenix, with one
precinct missing out of 70,
had a lead of 277 today over
Thomas Stanley of- Browns-
boro for the Democratic nomi
nation for county commis
sioner.
'. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The A.
F. of L. and the C.I.O. united
like long lost brothers against
Gov. Martin."
30 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1928 (Wednesday)
The city building, electrical
and street departments moves
into new offices in the city
hall.
From local and personal
column: "The Red Top School,
ast of Medford, on the slopes
of Roxy Ann, was dismissed
for the summer."
40 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1918 (Thursday)
The school board last night
decided to abandon for the
present the proposal to close
Jackson school.
Considerable interest has
been shown in organizing the
Women's Land Army in the
valley.
What's Your I.Q.?
aline er ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Name the capital of
Peru.
2. For whom was Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's son
named?
3. Francis Biddle formerly
occupied which cabinet of
fice? 4. In which state is the fa
mous Minnehaha waterfall?
5. A vixen is a female fox,
bear, rabbit or wolf?
6. What is the name of the
jiarrative poem that recounts
the adventures of Ulysses on
his voyage from Troy to Ith
aca? 7. What does the name
'Bretton Woods, N.H.," sug
gest to you in the world of
international affairs?
8. Name the great moun
tain range that lies between
India and China.
9. Is the male swan a cob,
cod or cub?
10. Which has horns, a rhin
oceros or a hippopotamus?
- Answers: 1. Lima. 2. For
his paternal grandfather. Gen.
Arthur MacArthur. 3. Attor
ney General. 4. Minnesota. 5.
Tax. 6. The Odyssey. 7. Loca
tion of founding of Interna
tional Bank. 8. Himalayas. 9.
Cob. lO- Rhinoceros. i
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Editorial Correspondence . . .
Utica, N. Y., May 20th Stopped off here to catch a train
for Rice Mountain Lodge where we expect to be welcomed by
the latest arrival, Marie McArthur.
Spent six hours in Chicago yesterday, having some old,
friends in for luncheon at the Sheraton-Blackstone. It used
to be the Blackstone and around 50 years ago the best hotel
in America. It is still good, but chain-hotels somehow are
never quite as good as the lone rangers. Among other old
friends' we greeted Sam Greeley who some years ago put
in the Medford sewage disposal system.
Like other firms his has grown through the years until
now he is boss of quite an establishment, with branches in
Canada and South America. Speaking of South America,
he said he had several projects in Venezuela and Colombia
recently and found no such anti-Americanism as Vice Presi
dent Nixon encountered. He hires local help, dealt with the
municipal governments and everything went along smoothly,
including final payments. He opined that had he been an
official envoy from the USA everything might have been
different. Incidently he is one of the original Eisenhower
supporters, but isn't so sold on Richard Nixon.
Speaking of hotels, across the street from the Blackstone
is the Conrad-Hilton. It was for many years the Stevens,
one of the largest hotels in the country. And if we will be
pardoned, one of the worst. Went over there to get. a
Milwaukee telephone directory, and never got into such a
motley mob. Must be a gold mine, but who wants to stay
overnight in a gold mine!
As always, there was a convention with hundreds of
delegates filling all the hotels, with name plates on their
lapels and no hats. One of the minor mysteries is how Knox
and Stetson stay in business', with no male under 70 wearing
a hat. There was quite a wind coming in from North Dakota
with dust in it, but the delegates walking up and down
Michigan Avenue did not seem to mind. There was a lot of
back slapping and the bars were filled to overflowing. One
of the clerks informed us there were three conventions on,
one of them "ladies' and children's wear," but the ladies and
children present were few and far between.
Walking up Michigan Avenue past the Chicago Art
Museum we saw very few of the delegates- or anyone else
going in but they are building a large and imposing annex
which indicates considerable public interest and support.
We don't think much of the management, for it refused to
open its doors to the Winston Churchill paintings. (Pure
provincial snobbery we calls it.)
In the same walk we noted the "Boulevard Linen com
pany" is still selling out, at greatly reduced prices lease
lost, must move that was the same condition almost exactly
a year ago!
As often noted the passenger trains running west of Chi
cago are vastly superior to those running east in everything
but speed.
We took a train called the "Pace-Maker" on the N. Y.
Central from the LaSalle street station leaving at 6:15 (CDT).
We can't recall when we have traveled at such a terrific
speed. We thought perhaps the engineer had gone berserk
but the porter assured us that all was well and we wouldn't
go off the track into Lake Erie, or, because of the high rate
of speed leave the rails.
Well we didn't. But somewhere in Indiana we did run
into a freight train that had. Freight cars were sprawled all
over the place on both sides of the track, upturned, broken
in half and what have you. The villagers it was still light
having a wonderful time. Among the wrecked cars was one
filled with "tuna" and another filled with pigs. While some
of the older boys and girls were picking up the cans of tuna,
others, somewhat mdre agile, were chasing the pigs.
We wanted to stick around
train didn't. We failed to get
was not far from South Bend
team resides. We trust their training table will be supplied
with enough ham and tuna for the football season.
At the LaSalle street station
new to us at least a slot machine featuring Oregon pears
and Washington apples 5, 10 and 15 cents. We risked a
dime and got a beautiful juicy Cornice as cold as deep freeze
and as usual, luscious. This is probably an old story to the
pear-boys in Medford but it was
to be a good one.
The country around Utica
and chuck-a-block with trees
the right of way, with cities
areas in between. It was quite different coming through Iowa
and Illinois where it is simply one wonderful farm after an
other. The corn is not up yet,
showing green, but it surely looks like the promised land of
milk and honey contentment, comfort and abundance in
spite or perhaps because of Secretary Benson. Compared
with Idaho and Wyoming however it was very dry the trac
tors running through the bare fields here and there, raising
long trails of light brown dust. In the years black angus, by
the way, seem to have pretty
holsteins.
This is a auaint village.
would be insulted for it probably is around ten times as popu
lous as Medford. But the business section is
- . J - J-r
to-date. After some jay walking we have decided pizza pie is
the favorite dish, and horror movies starring Orson Wells
the favorite entertainment. Our hotpl is fairiv mnrWn anri
we note by a bronze tablet
siept nere Dut Marsnai JLaiayette did, the 12th of June, 1823.
The one store we shonoed in nevpr had hparri nf Paul Smit
4T X
but had heard of Montreal and
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A BEGGAR, instead of holding out the customary ragged
eao. Was flttirpd in frnMr r-nt m4 nn V,-,f T .....
fw - wv.k aiivA iab. Oaj , WUi"
mented a curious passerby, "isn't it a bit odd to be hee?
iu top uai :
"Not around here." re
plied the beggar haughtily.
"If you want to get any
where in this neighbor
hood, you've eot to put on
some dog."
-
A bookstore' clerk saw a
customer" doubled with laugh
ter over a famous woman au
thor's new book entitled "How
to Make the People Around
You HaDBv." Asked if he
wanted to buy a copy, he re
plied, "Hell, no; I'm her first
nusDana."
A 67.VMF.aM vmerf Mrnt1v
"What's wrong with that?" he silenced disapproving pals. 'When
rV.'s mrt T'U k. ..tii -I JK FT
Mike Hall SDOtted th!s si en in a.
wanted. First five dishes broken are
19SJ, by StBJiett Cert Dlitrlbuted
and see the stampede but the
the name of the village but it
where the Notre Dame football
we ran into something new
a new idea to us and seems
is surprisingly free of farms
groves and groves all along
and extensive manufacturing
and the grain fields barely
much replaced the old-time
Probablv the npnnlp nf TTtim
that George Washington never
' V uua. Vimiillil
the Adirondacks. R.W.R. ;
Stop Me
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Wpsr Sirte tteanmr; TV.riwfl.aVi0F
on the house."
by King Features Sysdicste.
Dennis the Menace
1 " "
'See? Mown' wrong wnHAflTTCeTH!;
Stassen Runs Out
Of States; First
Error Seen in '48
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) - Maybe
the decision which made
shambles of Harold E. Stas-
fjfi sen's political
career was
reached back
in 1948 when
M i n n e sota's
fair- haired
boy w a 1 k ed
out on his na
tive state.
H o w e v er
that may be.
i. vie c. wiisnn the S t a s s en
political career which began
with four successive terms as
governor of Minnesota has
been knocked in the head bv
the Republican voters of
Pennsylvania.
Stassen is fresh out of the
states in which to run for
elective office. To a man who
has made politics a career,
that is a fate almost worse
than death. It is, in fact, liv
ing death because a politician
lives and breathes politics
just as a horse player lives
and breathes the track.
Back in 1948, Stassen made
the decision to shuck his Min
nesota voting residence to be
come president of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania and a
citizen of that state. This was
not necessarily madness be
cause by 1948 Stassen already
had sought the Republican
presidential nomination once
and was ready to try again in
that year and thereafter.
GOP Upsets Stassen
Pennsylvania was a big and
powerful eastern Renublican
state, better in all respects as
a springboard to the presi
dency than remote Minnesota
But Stassen sprang no fur
ther from Pennsylvania than
he .had been able to sDrinz
from Minnesota.
And in this week's euber
natorial primary, the organi
zation Republicans of Penn
sylvania cut him down as a
carpet-bagging outlander who
had invaded their precincts.
This year's bid for Pennsyl
vania's Republican nomina
tion for governor was Stas
sen's second recent and spec
tacular try for political iden
tity since the Eisenhower
steamroller flattened S t a s-
sens 1952 presidential nomi
nation in the Republican Na
tional convention.
Stassen undertook in 1956
to bump Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon off the Republi
can ticket. His man was
Christian A. Herter, then gov
ernor of Massachusetts, and
now undersecretary of state.
The measure of Stassen's fail
ure may be judged by the fact
that after his loud one-man
campaign to substitute Her
ter for Nixon, it was Herter
who placed Nixon's name in
nomination for vice president
in 1956 and Stassen, himself,
was one of the seconders.
Nixon Was Worried
President Eisenhower chose
during the preconvention pe
riod 4o let Nixon dangle in
doubt with no word from the
White House that he was the
President's choice for a 1956
running mate. The amateur
politicos of the Citizens-for-Eisenhower
organization also
ganged up on Nixon in happy
collaboration with the Stas
sen campaign.
For Nixon the going was
pretty rough at .one time,
what with Eisenhower's si
lence and the warnings of
Stassen and company that his
presence on the ticket would
cost millions of votes, lose
both houses of Congress and,
maybe, defeat Eisenhower. It
got so bad one day that Nixon
decided to withdraw and so
advised his intimates', but he
was dissuaded and went on to
be renominated unanimously.
Stassen seemed not to have
much political future when he
entered this year's Pennsyl
vania primary so his defeat is
no political milestone,' as
such. But it is important in
its relation to 1960.
As governor of Pennsylva
nia or as leader of the state's
Republican party, Stassen
would have held high cards
in the game' of preventing
Nixon's nomination for Presi
dent in 1960, There isn't so
much as a pair of deuces in
his political deck today.
Washington Report
By William S. White
Washington From the
black headlines rises a smell
of crisis that seems more acrid
1 than in a long
' time. France
I again is in an
; area of storm
which many
fear may be
come a hurri
cane. And France
is again un
willingly visit-
Willam S. White ing upon her
allies an intolerable and an
insoluble problem. She can
not hold Algeria. She cannot
let Algeria go. They could not
and would not hold Algeria
for her. They cannot force
her to let Algeria go, though
this would be best for the
West in general and perhaps
for France as well.
She is the tragic carrier of
woe and trouble, a sort of
pathetic international Ty
phoid Mary. And some now
fear that her spasms- may
bring down the present struc
ture of the Western alliance,
the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
"PRANCE'S actual and mate-
rial contributions to NATO
were never vast. They have
been inconsequential since she
had to send to Algeria the
first-line forces that ought to
be at home in France, ready
to resist any Russian lunge
across Europe.
Nevertheless, France is the
centerpiece of NATO, and its
military headquarters as well.
To many here, therefore, any
likely solution of the chaos
in France will hardly be good
for NATO. These are among
their assumptions:
1. A rise to sustained pow
erby lawful means or not
of General Charles De Gaulle
probably would imply an in
creasing rather than a dimin
ishing commitment to Algeria
of the already thin total
French force.
It would mean also a great
deal of propaganda harm to
the West. Whatever De Gaulle
did or did not do, the world's
left-wing and neutralist jro
left - wing and neutralist
groups would raise a great
clacking and clamor that
America and her allies were
now supporting in France the
kind of "reactionary" regime
they already were backing in
Franco Spain.
MOREOVER, a broadening
of the Algerian struggle
by heightened French action
might well draw in Tunisia
and Morocco, thus compromis
ing vital NATO bases. '
2. Alternatively, a rejection
of De Gaule probably would
mean, in the present heated
atmosphere, power for the
French far-left wing. Such a
regime might, in fact, be so
close to the Communists as
to make of France a most
doubtful Western headquar
ters for the future.
3. Even an ultimate suc
cess for French moderates
would not solve the riddle of
Algeria. No French govern-J
Italy To Elect New Parliament
En Important Week End Voting
By CHARLES McCANN
United Press Correspondent
This week end will see one
of the most important of the
post-war elections in any west
ern nation, as
Italy names a
new p a r 1 i a
ment. The election
will pit the
largest Com
munist party
outside the
Iron Curtain
against a bit
Charles M.
McCann
collection of
terly - divided
free parties.
Despite the split 'in the
right, some students of Com
munist affairs predict the
Reds may lose between 300,
000 and 400,000 votes due
more to internal dissension
than the lessons of Hungary.
Here, at a glance, is the
situation:
Date: Balloting starts May
25 and continues the follow
ing day. Counting starts the
moment the polls close May
26.
Issue: Elect a new Parlia
ment 596 members of the
Chamber of Deputies for a
five-year term and 246 sen
ators for a six-year term.
In addition to the 246 elect
ed senators, six senators ap
pointed for life will retain
their seats for a total senate
membership of 252.
The number both of dep
uties and senators was in
creased by law due to a rise
in Italy's population. The out
going chamber had 590 dep
uties, and the outgoing senate
consisted of 237 elected and
six appointed senators.
More Vital Statistics
Eligible voters: about 32,-
600,000 men and women over
21 years of age are eligible to
vote for the Chamber of Dep
uties. This compares with 30,
413,238 in the last general
ment could simply cut and
run 'from Algiers.
In all this ugly under
growth of problems may be
seen the bitter harvest of two
great postwar, and largely
American, mistakes - one a
matter of policy and the other
of misplaced sentiment.
T70R France is to some de-
gree hopelessly embroiled
with a demanding Algeria be
cause of the antircolonial atti
tude taken by the United
States since about 1946. This
has encouraged nationalist
movements everywhere
good, bad or indifferent no
matter how many power
vacuums they left.
Britain, also an old colonial
power, has had her agonies in
dealing with this American
policy, But she has been able
to sweat it out between her
necessity, on the one hand,
not to cut the last roots of
her old colonial strength and
her opposite necessity not
openly to buck the American
line.
It has not been intellectu
ally respectable since the war
to say a good word for coloni
alism anywhere and in any
circumstances. This has been
true even though it was the
possession of colonial and
quasi-imperial positions that
enabled the allies to destroy
the immense evils of Hitler
ism and Tojoism.
IN BAD taste, too, has been
any strong belief in power
as power.. To speak of this
openly has been as rude as
to laugh in church. But pow
er was the purpose of NATO,
the one great barrier against
the Russians. And NATO
never was intended to pro
mote new movements for na
tional independence, regard
less of allied needs. Rather it
was intended to promote divi
sions of troops and, through
these, the survival of existing
nations.
The second great error, in
which all in the West have
had a well-meaning compli
city, has been this: We have
insisted that France is what
France simply is not a great
power. It has been a conspir
acy of kindness toward an outstanding-
and gallant victim of
the lasting combat fatigue of
World War I. But it has had
none of the iron of truth in it.
Thus, high policy has built I
a system of defense upon the
sands of France. And simul
taneously it has applied a
standard against colonialism
in such a way as almost to
guarantee that these sands
could never harden into rock.
(Copyright, 1958, By United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
4
FLIP THEM AWAY
New York (IP) Cigarette
smokers breathed easier and
Bowery snipers looked for bet
ter days today.
The city, in the midst of a
clean-up drive, said Thursday
it would not ticket persons
tossing butts on the street,
even though this is a littering
violation.
iOTTT'f rtum
elections in 1953. Some 29,-
500,000 men and women over
25 years of age are eligible
to vote also for the Senate.
About 52 per cent of the vot
ers are women.
Turnout in postwar general
elections: 89.1 per cent in
1946, 92.2 in 1948, 93.78 in
1953.
Candidates: Candidates are
nominated by the political
parties. Candidates for deputy
must be at least 25 years of
age, and candidates for sen
ator at least 40.
Parties: Ten major political
parties are running on a na
Medical Association
Fights Health Plan
For Older Citizens
Washington (CQ) The
American Medical association,
the doctors' lobby, is conduct
ing an intensive campaign
against a bill to provide Fed
eral health insurance for old
people.
The AMA has hired an ex
tra public relations firm to
advise it on strategy, formed
an alliance with three other
medical organizations against
the bill, and alerted doctors
that their individual lobbying
help may be needed. .
, The bill prompting this lob
by activity is sponsored by
Rep. Aime J. Forand (D-R.I.),
third ranking member of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee. That Committee may
hold hearings on the bill this
month.
The Forand bill would give
Federal health insurance for
everybody eligible to receive
social security checks. " This
means women covered by so
cial security would be insured
from age 62 on and men from
age 65. '
120 Days Per Year
The insurance would pay
for surgical, hospital and nurs
ing home care. Nursing home
expenses would be paid for
only if the patient was sent
there from a ' hospital. The
combined hospital and nurs
ing home care would be lim
ited to 120 days a year.
. The money for the medical
payments would come out of
the social security fund. But
the amount of money employ
ers and employees pay into the
fund would be increased to
cover the extra outlay.
Forand and the AFL-CIO,
biggest backer of the health
plan, contend old people can
not get health insurance pri
vately at reasonable prices,
Government statistics show
most people over 65 do not
have health insurance. The in
surance some old people do
have pays for only about 25
per cent of their actual med
ical expenses. Statistics also
show that the ranks of the
aged are increasing rapidly.
AMA leaders admit that
there is not adequate health
insurance . available for old
people. But they says private
insurance plans should be
given more time to solve the
problem. Once the Federal
Government provides health
insurance for old people, AMA
leaders contend, it will set
out to cover everybody. Then
you will have socialization of
medicine, they say.
So the AMA is out to con
vince Congress not to enact
Federal health insurance. In
January AMA hired the Los
Angeles public relations firm
of Braun & Co. to advise it on
how to beat the Forand bill.
The AMA uses another firm
for other public relations
work.
O. D. Campbell, Braun vice
president in charge of the
firm's New York office, was
on hand in Chicago March 27
when the AMA and three oth
er medical organizations
formed the Joint Council to
Improve the Health Care of
the Aged. Members of the
Council besides the AMA are
the American Dental associa
tion, American Hospital asso
ciation and American Nursing
Home association. One of the
Council's announced objec
tives is to push for adequate
private . health insurance for
old people.
Long In Works
James W. Firistel, AMA le
gal consultant, said the For
and bill "accelerated" forma
tion of the Joint Council but
added that it had been in the
works for some time. He said
forming the Council was not
Campbell's idea. Campbell did
advise the group how and
when to announce formation
of the Council. He advised
against discussing the Council
in an open press conference.
The Council has its own
stationery but no staff nor
money. Its headquarters ad
dress on its stationery is the
same as the Chicago office of
AMA. Dr. F, J. L. Blasingame,
AMA general manager, said
the Council soon will have a
staff. Organization members
will pay for Council opera
tions, he said. ,
tion-wide scale, with dozens of
smaller groups running candi
dates in particular areas. Total
number of candidates is about
10 times the number of seats
at stake. The major parties in
order of numerical strength in
the 1953 elections, are the
Christian Democrats (10,860,
000 votes), Communists (6,
122,000), -Leftwing Socialists
(3,440,000), National Monarch
ists (1,856,000), Neo-Fascists
(1,580,000), Social Democrats
(1,224,000), Liberals (815,000),
Republicans (438,000), plus the
Radicals and the Popular Mon
archists who did not run in
1953.
The AMA contends the
Council should be allowed to
try and solve the health in
surance problems of the aged
before the Federal Govern
ment steps into the picture.
Some social security experts
wi,thin the Government dis
miss the Council as a "smoke
screen" over the Forand bill.
Administration Stand
All igns point to the Eisen
hower Administration oppos
ing the Forand bill on grounds
a private Council has been
formed to do the job. Dr. Aims
C. McGuinness, a special as
sistant to the Secretary of
Health, Education and -Welfare,
said the feeling among
those in the Department was
that the Council should be
given a chance. "We are de
lighted to see formation of
such a Council," McGuinness
said.
On the grass roots level, Dr.
David B. Allman, AMA pres
ident, privately wrote doctor
members April 4 that "every
physician must be prepared to
oppose this (Forand) bill vig
orously and be ready to make
his views known to the Con
gress should that become nec
essary."
The AMA represents 165,
000 doctors, or about 90 per
cent of the doctors in private
practice. ADA represents 90,-
000 dentists, or 90 per cent of
those licensed; AHA repre
sents 6,000 hospitals with
about 90 per cent of all the
hospital beds in the country,
and ANHA about 4,500 nurs
ing homes, or one-third of
those licensed.
Although the four groups
have announced opposition to
the Forand bill, the American
Hospital association said "ul
timately" it may be necessary
to use the social security fund
for health insurance for Id
people.
(Copyright 1958,
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
Living Cost Hits
Portland High
San Francisco (IP) Port
land's cost of living is at a
new all-time high, according
to the labor bureau's consum
er price index. Max D. Kos
soris, Western Regional Di
rector of the U.S. Department
of Labor's bureau of labor sta
tistics, attributes the rise to
higher prices for food, hous
ing and transportation.
Except for a slight 0.2 drop
in October, 1957, the price
level has risen steadily since
April, 1955, advancing more
than 9 per cent. The level
went up 3 per cent between
April, 1957 and April, 1958.
Higher food prices caused
a 2 per cent increase between
January and April. During
April alone, family food
prices moved up for a 1.7 per
cent average.
Higher prices in potatoes,
onions and celery brought the
fruit and vegetable cost of 6.5
per cent. A 1.2 rise between
March and April increased the
fruit and vegetable cost 12.5
per cent over the April 1957
level.
Beef, pork and fish aver
aged higher, and only poultry
items showed a downward
trend.
Eagle Point Man
Gets Picture Award
Leland C. McSwan, Eagle
Point, has received an award
for submitting a winning pic
ture in a nation-wide farm
photo contest sponsored by the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber
company.
His photo showing how to
grease farm machinery with a
grease gun by using cloth as
a gasket won $50, presented
by Bill Clark of Medford Tire
Service, Inc.
Purpose of the contest is to
stimulate the spreading of
ideas for doing things easier
or quicker on the farm.
McSwan was one of three
winners who will be featured
in the company's bi-monthly
dealer magazine, Farm Progress."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Screwball side of life note:
Author Aldous Huxley has
attacked the subliminal adver
tising technique in a televi
sion interview. (This "sublim
inal" technique consists in
flashing advertising messages
on TV and movie screens so
fast you can't see 'em, and
they re supposed to influence
your buying decisions without
letting you know you're being
influenced.)
He forecasts an ALARMING
new world in which politicians
will make nonsense of demo
cratic procedures by election
campaigns aimed at the sub
conscious mind. .
TTMMMMMMMMM.
D'ya reckon the poli
iticians can mess things up
any worse with the aid of the
subliminal technique than
they've been able to do with
out it?
T THIS point a question:
What is a politician?
THE dictionary defines a pol
itician as "one addicted to,
or actively engaged in, poli-
often, one primarily interested
in political offices or the
PROFITS from them as a
source of private gain." "
The dictionary adds:
"POLITICIAN now com
monly implies activity in par
ty politics, especially with a
suggestion or artifice or in
trigue. "STATESMAN now usually
suggests broad-minded and
far-seeing sagacity in affairs
of state."
THAT takes us back into
history.
The Greek philosopher
Plato, in his great work, The
Republic, speaks of democ
racy as "a charming form of
government, full of variety
and disorder, and dispensing
a sort of equality to equals
and unequals alike."
AT THIS point another
Hmmmmmmm.
They must have had poli
ticians back in Plato's day.
That suggests another ques
tion: ,
When was Plato's day?
IT WAS a long time ago.
It isn't known when he
was born, but he died in 347
B.C., more than two thou
sand years ago. He was a dis
ciple of Socrates and the
teacher of, Aristotle. Aris
totle is generally credited
with being the father of sci
ence. Plato was the student and
companion of Socrates until
the latter's trial and death in
399 B.C. Socrates was con
demned to death "for the cor
ruption of youth" by intro
ducing new gods (meaning
new ideas and new ways of
thinking).
He was required, upon his
conviction, to drink a cup of
hemlock poison, the theory
being that if he were guilty
the hemlock would kill him,
but if he were innocent, it
would do him no harm.
They had some queer ideas
then, too.
BACK now to Aldous Hux
ley. Who's he?
Well, he's an English novel
ist, journalist and essayist.
He's also a scientist and the
grandson of a scientist. His
grandfather was Thomas
Henry Huxley, widely known
for his defense of the theory
of evolution held by Darwin.
He was often called "Dar
win's Bulldog," and engaged
in a famous controversy with
England's noted prime min
ister, William E. Gladstone.
Gladstone was a politician
(in that he used the arts of
politics to keep himself in of
fice) and he didn't think the
Darwinian theory of evolution
would be popular with his
constituents.
Politics, you see, has AL
WAYS been politics.
NO JURY DUTY
Springfield, 111. (IP) Alma
Young was released without
further question Thursday
from jury duty in an assault
with a deadly weapon case
when it was determined she
was the defendant.
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