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The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists ol a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers Each article 's a summary ot an actual report The Family Council does not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselor Bernice N. I have nobody in whom I can confide. Mm. E. N. She gets lots of attention. Bernice N. I am 14 and am very unhappy at home be cause I have nobody in whom I can confide. I have many problems, maybe more than most teen-age girls, but I can't go to my parents because they are always busy with their own affairs. All the girls tell me they discuss their problems of dat ing and petting and such things with their mothers. My mother doesn't approve of my being interested in such things. She never even really told me any of the facts of life just gave me a few hints. I learned the rest from friends. I would also like to talk to my father about my future, but he just laughs at me and tells me to do my schoolwork now and be a good girl, and the future wilL take care of itself. I have an older brother, who happens to be a real jerk, so he's no help at all. Mrs. E. ft. tf ever a girl got lots of attention, Bernice did. She's the only girl in the family and has always been doted on by both of us, es pecially by her father. Yet she always has complained that nobody "understands" her. Some of Bernice's questions are just silly and impossible. She'll ask, "What is going to become of me?" or, "How many dates should a girl have before becoming engaged?" or equally silly questions about sex. The fact that she has gotten answers doesn't stop her from asking again. It is not true that I did not tell Bernice the facts of life. I told her as best I could. She seemed very embarrassed and did not ask any questions, so I didn't go into unnecessary details, but she knows I would have been glad to answer all her questions and didn't want her going to friends. The Council: Bernice ap pears to have many fears and uncertainties about her first steps into womanhood. It' is very probable that she doesn't know exactly what she is afraid of, but would like to be reassured by her parents It would be a good idea if Bernice's parents got into the habit of answering some of MEDFOKD Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1958 Pages 1 - 8 her questions with another question, instead of a short answer. There is something pressing behind her silly ques tions and her parents may be able to help her to expose some of those dark, simmering "problems." The question "What is go ing to become of me?" for example, should beget ques tions like, "In what way?" "What would you like to hap pen?" or, "Do you mean in the next five years or later?" The question, "How many dates should a girl have be fore getting engaged?" could beget questions like, "What do you think?" "What makes you suddenly ask that?" or, "How many dates would you like to have before getting engaged?" These questions should lead to still more until Bernice is able to bring out her confusions a little more fully. Bernice should be reassured that she probably doesn't have more problems than most teen-agers. The girls of her age who appear wise, flip and self-possessed are often just as uncertain and frightened underneath as she is. Horace Greeley's Advice Said To No Longer Apply To West By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice to young men to "Go West" would no longer ne c e s s arily be good advice. This is the view today of Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, often called the lead ing his- i - . A I- A. Bobt Smith wna" vl American West, who is pro fessor at University of Texas and president 'of the Ameri can Historical Association. Of the West, Prof. Webb says: "It is my country. I have spent my whole adult life try ing to understand it." This contradiction of Gree ley by-Webb is one enigmatic REPEATofaSE OU MCE AGABM MANN'S IS ABU T WMQ Yy World Famous 1. m w : - iir fiiW lM - ; : iilp' -WO0LEM r&MwJ S' MILL ENDS 5 IN 0NEJ0 TEN RD IENGTHS fll iCf ? if ' 100o rrhWM WIDE. 1 1 CHARGES SATURDAY, OCT. 25 ? ' J PAYABLE DEC. 10 1 s..i ses fn) (m (m r :m SC.: Ml U yard WOOL YARDAGE IN PENDLETON'S WANTED PATTERNS - A FULL 60" CLAN TARTANS, BOLD PLAIDS, CHECKS AND SHIRT PLAIDS. SOLD IN EVEN YARDS ONLY. COME EARLY- only 400 yds. available Reg. 4.98 to 6.98 yard SIPIEOAII. PUJUBCIHIASIE! 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Plans like that made the West what it is -fastest growing region in the nation, with all that means in terms of a shift in the balance o"f population, industry and political power," the magazine reports. , Power Shortages Solved Of the Pacific Northwest, it states: "Oregon and Washington were among the first states to feel the impact of the West's new technology and in dustrial growth. Power short ages, once a threat, have been solved by a vast expansion of power capacity that is still go ing on. . . "Oregon, with about one fifth of the U.S. timber, sup ply, , has put this basic re source on a constantly re newable basis, assuring the state of steady growth in the future. Portland has a build ing boom underway, is the center of another potential 'strip city' reaching up toward Seattle on the north; and south about 50 miles to Salem." Since 1940, the 17 western states have grown at a rate 66 per cent above the na tional average. Population has shot up from 27 million in 1940 to 42 million now. Per sonal income is up from $15 to $85 billion. Manufacturing is up from $3 to $23 billion. "Much of the west is in debted to the federal govern ment for policies and projects that underlie and shape its rapid development," the magazine explains. "It is in the West that military air craft largely are produced. The West provdes the testing ground for missiles and new aircraft. It is the center of atomic-weapon development. Here are found the big bomb er bases and the first ballistic- missile bases. Into the West in the 10 years has gone about $8 billion worth of federal public works. The giant dams that harness rivers of the West were government-fi nanced. New dams, providing power and irrigation, are con stantly being planned. . , Water Resources - "T h e federal government, over the last 25 years, has put more than $10 billion into development of water re sources of the W e-s t alone Private industry has more than matched the federal in vestment in power by provid ing electricity to supply ex panding industry and a rapid ly increasing, population." No longer the "colonial' region to be exploited for its raw materials, the West now is no longer hungry for in vestment capital. Western railroads are doing well in freight and passengers. Jet aircraft are about to shrink transcontinental d i s t a nces. bringing the Pacific Coast to within five or six hours of the Atlantc seaboard. Why, in this context, should Prof. Webb contradict Horace Greeley? He aDDears to believe that while the West will continue to crow fast, the South will eniov an even greater econ omic surge. He put it thi way: The old South, in my opin ion, has great potential, l think it is going to be a re gion of great opportunity in the next 50 years. It has more water than any other section, the capacity to produce tim ber faster than any other re gion, great possibilities in the soil which we have only be gun to recognize and man age." Growth on Upgrade The South has lagged be hind the West in its growth over the past few decades, but has been on the upgrade, Prof. Webb pointed out that in demand bank deposits in 1930, out of every $100 in the nation, the South had $10.65, the West had $11.37-and the North had $77.98. By 1950 the South had $19.83, -the West $20.51 and the North $59.66. The South is in a most- favored position in what ma"y be called the new industriali zation" said Prof. Webb. "A fabricating industry-especial- ly in minerals-is never based on one resource, but on combination of resources. The rnortn naa a trinity of in dustrial resources in coke and coal, limestone and iron ore. These ushered in the age of steel and gave the North its industrial supremacy. rne & o u t n today has a similar industrial trinity which may be as potent for the future as the North's trinity had been for the last century. This trinity is hydro- carbons-which are oil and gas plus sulphur and water, which exist together along the Gulf Coast. This is the trinity of the Age of Chemistry. Only in the South do these three elements exist in juxtaposition. They are the basis of the petro chemical industry which is al- concentrated in that area and growing at such a rate that no one can calculate its future." Greeley was giving advice when the frontier still existed, Prof. Webb says the situation has changed because "the frontier d j s a p p e ared arid. nence, tney can no longer go West and make a new begin ning and a new start on the terms they could down to the end of the 19th century. The second factor is that the in stitutions have caught up with us. The corporation arose, and we are living today not in a frontier world, not even liv ing in an individua listic world - we are living in a corporate world." Even Alaska's vast unset tled lands-sometimes called American's last frontier-are not for "John Doe and Rich ard Roe and his family to go up there and live the sort of life that our fathers lived in the 19th century-. It takes more capital organization and preparation to do the job." That's why Greely is now passe. . Kss Dollar, for Dollar,.. Feature for Feature... ill ir o IVJ Meat Inspection Supervisor Named Salem (DPD Dr. Lewis E. Bondenweiser, Salem, has been named supervisor of di sease control and meat inspec tion for the State Department of Agriculture. Dr. Bodenweiser, holder of three veterinary degrees, was in private practice in Missou- tive members of the bar and ing to Oregon. He has been an assistant state veterinar ian since September, 1955. Agriculture Director Rob ert J. Steward said Dr. Bod enweiser performed outstand ing services in. prior major staff assignments. .This past summer he or ganized an outstanding re search conference on ornith osis, bringing to Oregon the leading state, federal and pri vate workers in the field, Steward said. s&z 3l. RE-ELECT BOB Your Present State Representative VOTE (X) Robert DUNCAN (X) Marijane DUNCAN DEMOCRATS for tmMwmmmi ' 1 'if ELECT MARIJANE Worked wWh Bob in both '57 Sessions STATE REPRESENTATIVES Independent thinking and Cooperative , Action Means Good Government! "GOOD GOVERNMENT IS YOUR BUSINESS" Pd. Adv. Duncans for Legislature Committee. 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