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Sunday, May 17, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 17. 1949 (Tuesday)
The Medford city council
will consider a proposed ban
on bee keeping.
Central Point opens bids on
constructing a sewage dis
posal plant.
20 YEARS AGO
May 17, 1939 (Wednesday)
Charles E. Clay Sr. is ap
pointed to the Medford water
commission.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Rain
Is still badly needed to ruin
the hay and fishing and next
Sunday's picnic."
30 YEARS AGO
May 17, 1929 (Friday)
L. A. Banks, California
fruitman, fires a volley
against smudging in the val
ley. Mrs. Penland heads the
community club at Talent.
40 YEARS AGO
May 17. 1919 (Saturday)
Ed G. Brown takes 100
boys to the Al G. Barnes
circus.
i An editorial declares, "It is
folly to oppose irrigation in
the valley."
50 YEARS AGO
May 17. 1909 (Monday)
Saturday is Crater Lake
day, with the governor ex
pected here to preside over
festivities and appoint a Cra
ter Lake road commission.
Crowds flock to the circus
on the Queen Anne domain in
the east part of town.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct i superior;
seven or eight b excellent; five or
six is good.
1. A native dish of Hawaii,
known as poi, is made from
coconuts, taro, or pineapples?
2. Water is composed of two
gasses; name them.
3. Decisions of the U. S. Su
preme Court must be by at
least two-thirds majority; true
or false?
4. Are male whales known
as rams, bucks, or bulls?
5. The nickname for pri
vates in the British Army is
6. Will the Federal Govern
ment redeem counterfeit
money from innocent victims?
7. One mill is what part of
one cent?
8. For what metal is quick
silver another name?
9. Which creates the most
smoke when burned anthra
cite, or bituminous coal?
10- Which President did
Calvin" Coolidge succeed as
President of the U. S.?
Answers: 1. Taro. 2. Hydo
gen and oxygen. 3. False. 4.
Bulls. 5. "Tommies. 6. No. 7.
One-tenth of a cent. 8. Mer
cury. 9. Bituminous. 10. War
ren G. Harding.
JEWELED GARBAGE
San Pedro, Calif. - (CPU - A
load of garbage worth $10,-
000? Garbage truck driver
Noble Ross was jockeying a
load worth exactly that for a
while Friday. Then sanitation
officials, who had been con
tacted by Mrs. Edward John
son in a frantic telephone
call, stopped Ross and recov
ered from his load a $10,000
package of diamonds Mrs.
Johnson had accidently
thrown out the garbage.
BLM and Forest Service
The proposal currently in the news, which
would place administration of O&C forest lands
of the bureau of land management under the ad
ministration of the forest service, is not a new
one. It keeps popping up from time to time.
"According to A. Robert Smith, our correspon
dent in Washington, the proposal probably will
have tough sledding, for the reason that Fred
Seaton, secretary of the interior, is opposed to it.
(The BLM is part of the interior department;
the forest service is part of the department of
agriculture.)
-"THERE are valid arguments on both sides of
the proposal.
One of the state's best-informed men on the
subject is Charles A. Sprague, who as an editor,
as a former governor of the state, and as a mem
ber of the O&C advisory committee, has been
closely informed on the problems of the BLM in
Oregon for many years.
He concludes that:
". . . The gains from BLM's Intensive management
outweigh possible savings in overhead. However, good
forestry will prevail whether the merger is made or
not, because of the public demand for it."
He is undoubtedly correct in that conclusion.
But some heated arguments can be generated
about the proposal, just the same.
TOR instance, the BLM sells timber on a cruise
basis that is, BLM foresters mark the trees
to.be cut, and set a price for them as they stand.
The forest service sells on a scale basis or an
actual measurement of the board feet of lumber
as the logs come out of the forest by-truck.
Some loggers prefer one method; some an
other. And in any meeting of lumbermen it's
possible to stir up a discussion over the merits or
demerits of each.
Another factor, probably even more impor
tant to the smaller lumber operator, is the fact
that most national forest land is in fairly large
blocks, while O&C lands- are to a large extent
scattered in "intermingled" ownerships, many of
them in fairly small plots. As a result the BLM
tends to offer a larger percentage of smaller sales
than the forest service sales which the small
logger can afford to bid on.
D'OTH agencies, as Governor Sprague points
out, are dedicated to good forest management
and silviculture, and both, as they gain experience
and are provided with necessary funds, are doing
an increasingly good job.
Because of the patterns of ownership, the for
est service has worked out its system of ranger
districts, with men living in the area where they
work, while BLM personnel usually is concen
trated in the immediate area of the district office,
driving out to the field when necessary.
The forest service is dedicated to multiple-
purpose use of the forests. The BLM, a more
recent comer to the field of forest management,
only now is working more and more toward this
ideal, Jbutdoes not have
same job in some fields,
the forest service does.
NE principal reason why the proposal will
meet opposition, particularly in the 18 O&C
counties of western Oregon, is the fact that while
both agencies turn part
over to the counties, they do it under different
formulas. ,
Revenue from O&C lands goes to the coun
ties in which they are located on a basis of 75
per cent to the counties, 25 per cent to the federal
government. (In recent years, the counties have
allocated one third of their 75 per cent to con
struction of access roads and reforestation. The
remaining portion has no strings to it, as to how
counties may use it.)
Revenue from forest service lands go 25 per
cent to the counties and 75 per cent to the federal
government The counties' portion must be used
for school and road purposes.
,, '
rNE can readily see, therefore, why the O&C
w counties would fight
any proposal which threatened the substantial
source of income which
sents, in Jackson county, for instance, it is the
O&C revenues which have made the levying of a
tax for county purposes unnecessary recently.
An administrative
U&u lands under forest service administration,
would not affect the distribution formula, for
that is provided by law. However, it misrht lead
Congress to reconsider the formula something
that gives O&C county officials the shakes just
to tnuiK about.
In addition, it would create a major disruption
in the BLM office here, for the Medford district
office devotes a major part of its activities to
O&C lands, less to other BLM responsibilities.
It would also cause an upheaval in the administra
tion of the Rogue River and Siskiyou National
forests, which would be faced with a tremendous
ly increased job virtually overnight.
S NEARLY as we can
has yet been made
Iished in an upstate newspaper that the proposal
has "already gained official sanction and will be
instituted as of June 1, 1959." This rumor, almost
certainly, is wrong, for such a reorganization plan
must oe suomitted to Congress 60 days before
becoming effective. If it wishes, Congress can
veto the suggestion within that period of time.
If it is to be done this year, it will have to be
done soon, because of the 60-day limitation.
Because of the controversial aspects of the
plan, we will be somewhat surprised if it is under
taken, soon, anyway. E.A,
the facilities to do the
such as recreation, that
of their land revenues
tooth and nail against
the O&C lands repre
reorganization, placing
determine, no decision
desnite "rumors" Dub-
Dennis the
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
UNEASY MONEY
It is still touch and go
whether the President will
get from this Congress ex-
actly the
budget he has
asked for.
gut on the
broad princi
ples which he
has adopted,
he seems now
to be assured
of sup port.
Walter m."v-
Lippmann pies are that
the next budget shall be bal
anced approximately and that
this shall be done not by
raising taxes but by holding
down military and civilian
expenditures. For the time be
ing the battle the President
is waging against inflation is
going reasonably well, in that
the price level is on the whole
standing still.
Nevertheless, the news
from the. money markets
gives little support to the idea
that the battle against infla
tion is being won. The Treas
ury is having to pay very high
rates for very short term
money. The long term bond
market is depressed while
stocks and . real estate are
booming.
.
rpHESE are the classic signs
of inflation, that is to say,
of a lack of confidence that
money will conserve its pur
chasing power. When there is
this lack of confidence, peo
ple prefer to own tangible
goods, as they do when they
buy equity shares, to having
what are promises to pay dol
lars in the future.
The behavior of the mar
kets reflects the judgments of
the great investing institu
tions with their expert ad
visors. These markets are,
therefore, a kind of running
Gallup Poll in which those
who are questioned back
their opinions with their mon
ey. They are saying that they
expect a continuing inflation,
whether or not the President
wins his fight in this Congress
about this particular budget.
IlfHEN we ask ourselves
what is the basis of this
pessimism, we must begin by
remembering that there is no
precise answer to this ques
tion. We are dealing with a
situation where a preponder
ant majority of investors not
only in this country but also
abroad have come to the
same practical conclusion,
though not necessarily for the
same reasons.
The same conclusion they
have come to is quite evi
dently that in the battle
against inflation the Presi
dent has not produced a pol
icy that is good for more than
the next budget. He has no
policy which is good for a
much longer future. It may
be' that the 1960 budget can
be made to balance, though
even this takes a certain
amount of finesse in the
bookkeeping. But if this par
ticular budget is balanced, it
will be done not by reducing
expenditures, but by postpon
ing them.
Editorial Comment
PROFIT VS. OBLIGATION
This week the Southern
Pacific succeeded in convinc
ing the interstate commerce
commission that it could not
afford to run its Shasta Day
light more than three timefe a
week except during the sum
mer months and the Christmas
holidays.
One day after this an
nouncement was forthcoming,
D. J. Russell, president of the
SP, told stockholders of the
railroad that the system had a
net income of $2.01 per share
Menace
Lippmann
IF WE look at our national
commitments, it is unfor
tunately all too probable that
our position as a whole is go
ing to be out of balance for
years to come. Cur national
commitments are for defense,
for internal development, for
welfare and public facilities
Lined up against these com
mitments we also have com
mitments to the farmers and
to the veterans and to the tax
payers, who are expecting a
tax reduction. Some mighty
political battles will be fought
to bring these conflicting
commitments into balance.
There is no reason what
ever to think that we shall be
able to spend less on defense,
On the contrary, almost sure
ly we shall feel compelled to
spend more. In the field of
civilian expenditures, there
must be a substantial increase
over the present level unless
by some unlikely miracle the
huge agricultural subsidies
can be done away with or at
least drastically reduced. It is
virtually certain that the pub
lic money spent for public fa
cilities will rise steeply in the
years to come.
The growth of our popula
tion is one reason why these
expenditures must rise. The
growing concentration of our
growing population in big ci
ties is another reason why the
expenditures must rise. More
over, owing to the World
War and the Korean war
there is a big backlog of nec
essary public expenditures
for schools, hospitals, and
many kinds of projects to con
serve and develop our na
tural resources. If a third
world war is averted, as prob
ably it can be, we can count
it for certain that the decade
of the sixties will see a move
ment, comparable with the
New Deal of the thirties, to
modernize the public facili
ties of this country.
T3E PROSPECTS in defense
and in internal civilian
improvements make it Virtu
ally certain that with our
present tax structure and our
normal rate of growth, there
will be a heavy pressure
against the balance of the
budget. A consideration of
these realities may account in
considerable measure for the
pessimism of the money mar
kets. Is there a remedy? Certain
ly there is no simple and easy
one. What must come first,
however, is to stop pretend
ing that the 1960 budget is a
genuine and adequate answer
to the problem of inflation,
Then we have to begin defin
ing and posing the real ques
tions which will confront us.
They arrive from the fact that
in order to balance the budget
against the rising expendi
tures which are inevitable,
we must brace ourselves to
the grim, the politically un
touchable and unspeakable
truth that we shall have td
raise more taxes.
(Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
forthe first quarter of 1959
compared with $1.33 per share
for the same period of 1958.
In dollars and cents, the
SP earned $18,182,060 the
first quarter this year and
$12,023,488 during the first
quarter a year ago. By any
measurement this is a hand
some increase in profits, a
tribute to the astuteness of
Mr. Russell as a manager.but
not much of a reflection upon
the railroad's obligation to
provide reasonable passenger
servicer-Ashland Tidings
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Support Consolidation
To the Editor: Concerning
the question of. Phoenix- Tal
ent school consolidation, ver
sus the districts remaining as
they are:
The following is a quote in
part from a letter received
from Alf B. Mekvold, County
School. Superintendent, of
May 12, 1959, in response to
our specific question:
"What are the provisions of
the Reorganization Law con
cerning the possibility of
Phoenix District remaining
as it is at present?"
Quote: "It is to be empha
sized that at no time has the
Reorganization Com m i 1 1 e e
considered a proposal to leave
either Talent or Phoenix as
they are. One of the considera
tions is the size of the Phoenix
High School. Another major
consideration, of course, is the
disposition of Talent which
has even a smaller high school
than Phoenix. It might be
said in another way that leav
ing Phoenix as it is does not
solve the total problem in this
area."
" The consolidation of Phoenix-Talent
would be an ad
vantage to both schools, for
with the increased enrollment
both districts would more
closely meet the recommend
ed requirements in Dr. Con-
ant's report. We would be able
to meet all requirements for
college preparatory subject
offerings as to English, Math
ematics, Science and Social
Studies, Foreign Languages,
plus the customary elective
subjects and a very adequate
program of vocational sub
jects.
We feel that the school
boards of the two consolidat
ing districts would work out
a plan of utilizing all existing
facilities to the greatest ad
vantage of all concerned.
Mrs. J. L. Martin
4189 Colver rd.
Medford
Mrs. H. C. Sloper
4756 S. Pacific Hwy,
Medford
Played for a Fish
To the Editor: I can't help
but feel that Phoenix is being
played for a fish in the com
ing Talent-Phoenix consolida
tion. Why did Talent suddenly
raise each of its teachers' sal
aries $900? That is many
hundreds over our Phoenix
teachers. That's a pretty good
raise, particularly when most
of it will be paid by Phoenix
taxpayers. Also they say that
we won't be responsible for
Taltent's.bonded indebtedness.
But what about their debts
that aren't bonded? I know of
$17,000 that will suddenly be
our problem if we carry out
an immediate consolidation.
On' top of all this, Talent
doesn't even own its own
buses. They pay a group in
Ashland to haul their chil
dren. Does Phoenix want to
pay Ashland to haul Talent
children? We have a good bus
system of our own. Let's keep
it alone!
I have had several legal
opinions and each attorney
has stated absolutely that we
can't be forced to consolidate
with anyone. I can refer you
to them.
If we do consolidate, our
taxes will go up 11 mills im
mediately, according to the
Phoenix School Board. This
doesn't include all of the
things Talent wants to build.
They want a gymnasium (esti
mated at $60,000 to $70,000).
They can't use the gym they
have because the childrea
would have to cross the street
to get there. I ask you, are we
fish? They have to have their
grade school overhauled. No
one seems to know what that
will cost.
I don't like to be played for
a fish. Vote against Phoenix
Talent consolidation, Wednes
day, May 20.
Cloe Small
Rt. 3, Box 240
Phoenix
Alternatives Discussed
To the Editor: Regarding
Phoenix-Talent Consolidation:
Should we consolidate or
TRY to stand alone?
The Reorganization Com
mittee early this year recom
mended two alternative plans
for Phoenix district: Phoenix
Talent consolidation or Phoe
nix Medford consolidation.
The coming election on
Phoenix - Talent consolidation
is a voluntary election. A
simple majority will rule the
outcome. However if this con
solidation fails, the Reorgani
zation Committee can present
a plan, which in all probabili
ty will be a Phoenix-Medford
consolidation. After the usual
legal procedures, an election
will be held, and determined
according to Oregon school
law, Sec. 12. Read it carefully:
Votes are counted separate
ly, and if 60 per cent or more
of the votes cast in any dis
trict are against the formation
of the district, the formation
Matter of Fact
CARDS ON THE TABLE?
Geneva In the American
and French delegations- here,
there is increasing disquiet
about the
British d e 1 e
gation's ten
dency to con
cede points to
the Soviets.
The argu
ments at Ge
neva, so far,
have primari
ly concerned
j i
loi.ptj Alsop proce aurai
matters. But the Soviets are
well known to regard such
arguments, even if they mere
ly concern the shape of the
conference table, as highly sig
nificant tests of will. Hence
every trivial concession made
to the Soviets at the outset
means an insistent Soviet de
mand for a much larger con
cession later on. This is the
explanation of the seemingly
bizarre intensity of the pre
liminary skirmishes.
Even so, the British ten
dency to give way in these
preliminary skirmishes would
be causing only momentary
concern, if it were not for
certain other developments
elsewhere. For example, the
news has just reached Geneva
that the Federation of British
Industries and Reuter's news
agency have both decided,
with surprising simultaneity,
to open offices in the East
German Republic.
Fr VIEW of the timing and
other circumstances, it is
very hard to believe that the
decision by Reuter's and the
Industries Federation was not
officially approved, or even
actively encouraged. One of
the issues in dispute here at
Geneva is of course the Soviet
demand for some sort of de
facto recognition of the Com
munist regime in East Ger
many. The British think that
de facto recognition ought to
be accorded. And the move
by Reuter's and the Industries
Federation looks unhappily
like a unilaterial first step in
the direction desired by the
Foreign Office and opposed
by Britain s allies.
.That is by no means all of
the story either. The second
installment is far more sensa
tional though fortunately far
more doubtful too. In brief, re
ports have reached Secretary
of State Christian Herter and
his French colleague, Maurice
Couve de Murville, of Anglo-
Soviet transactions that
would set a wholly new pat
tern. . .
THE reports, apparently com
ing from Turkish and Ger
man sources, actually suggest
that an important Anglo-Soviet
economic and political deal
has been made in the very
midst of the Berlin crisis. It is
alleged that the British gov-
e r n m e n t has tentatively
agreed to extend a massive
purchasing credit to the So
viet government, in order to
increase Soviet trade with
Britain. It is further alleged
that the. Soviets have under
taken to order the Arab Com
munist parties not to disturb
British oil interests in the
Middle East, in return for a
British undertaking to see
problems outside the Middle
East with an eye more sym
pathetic to the Soviets.
On their face, these reports
are incredible. They are not
believed for a whole series of
obvious reasons, by the Ameri
will be delayed 30 days. If a
petition by 50 per cent of vot
ers in rejecting district is pre
sented to County Superinten
dent within that 30 days a new
election is held within 60 days
from first election: If a ma
jority of votes in ,the reject
ing district approves in second
election, the formation of the
district goes forward. If re
jected, a new plan must be
presented to the State Board
of Education. If rejected the
same plan is submitted a year
laer. .
Note, that 60 per cent of the
dissenting votes cast, does
NOT defeat the issue, but
merely delays it for 30 days.
Does anyone believe we
could fight such an unfair
law and continue to "stand
alone"?
Mrs. Cecil Redding
1517 Pacific rd.
Medford
Mrs. Roy Baker
1526 Camp Baker rd.
Medford
Salutary News
To the Editor: I have been
much impressed by the salu
tary turn of local news in the
last few days and think it is
worth comment. It's fine to
have a group studying the
Bear creek situation, to have
another planning to order lit-
terbags, to have someone
working on parking and to
have a county official propose
spending money on recreation
areas.
It's also rather nice to have
a newsDater that encourages
such developments. Perhaps
this is why I think Jackson
county is a good place to live.
Thanks to you all.
Veldon J. Diment,
213 Portland ave.,
Medford.
By Joseph Alsop
cans and French. Yef the evi
dence cited, although it cer
tainly does not prove the
truth of the reports, is some
what troubling in itself.
Behind the story of a mas
sive British credit to the So
viets, there is the fact that
the President of the Board of
Trade, Sir David Eccles, has
just left for Moscow to seek
better Anglo - Soviet commer
cial relations. The Eccles mis
sion received a major send
off. Ostentatiously sending
such a mission at this par
ticular moment has a look of
treating the Berlin crisis on a
business-as-usual basis.
AGAIN, it appears that dur
ing Prime Minister Har
old Macmillan's Moscow visit,
Nikita Khrushchev really did
drop a hint of some sort about-
British oil interests in the
Middle East. Nothing could
have been easier to do. On the
one hand, Khrushchev could
recall former Prime Minister
Anthony Eden's angry, fruit
less attempt at warning the
Soviets away from the Middle
East during the Khrushchev-
Bulganin visit to Britain. On
the other hand, he could point
to the present situation in
Iraq,' whose Communist - in
fluenced government is now
to receive British arms.
Maybe it is taking what is
called a catastrophic view of
the Middle Eastern situation.
But the fact remains that with
Iraq already virtually in their
grasp, and with Iran in grave
danger, the Soviets may soon
possess a powerful lever for
use in London. If they ever
truly control the Iraqi and
Iranian oil sources, they will
surely apply the lever to the
full. It would be characteris
tic of Khrushchev to drop
some hint about this when he
had the chance.
A LTOGETHER, there is far
too much raw material for
a really bad misunderstanding
between the Americans and
French and their British al
lies." On the one crucial point,
the sanctity of the freedom of
West Berlin, the British swear
they will never give way: and
what they say on this point
has every appearance of sin
cerity.
On other points of sub
stance as well as tactics, the
British are widely separated
from the other allies. The sep
aration is being made worse
by the sort of things above
described. Moreover some of
these things, like the ill-timed
opening of two semi-official
offices in West Germany, seem
to constitute legitimate
grounds for complaint
The Anglo - American alli
ance has always been the
heart and core of the Western
alliance. Hence it would seem
to be high time for Secretary
Herter and Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd to thrash out
their , differences with aU
cards on the table.
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc. '
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Something new is added at
Geneva, where the West pro
poses that the four - power
talks that are under way there
shall be held in secret.
Why?
Two reasons are offered:
1. The West's envoys are
said to believe that acceptance
of secrecy at the sessions
would indicate that Moscow
wants genuine negotiations
for a settlement.
2. They think rejection of
secrecy would be equivalent
to admission that the Soviet
government regards the Ge
neva meeting mainly as a
propaganda forum.
The suggestion to negotiate
behind closed doors was
offered yesterday by U.S. Sec-
reary of State Herter. It was
firmly, endorsed by Britain
and France.
BAD?
Tt cm in He VaH
But-
Every East-West meeting so
far has been turned by the
Russians into a propaganda
forum. In a propaganda battle
the Russians have a great ad
vantage, because they will lie
and we won't. One of the basic
tenents of communism is that
whatever serves the commu
nist purpose is justifiable. We
are governed by a different
standard of ethics.
Sc-
In a propaganda battle
we're apt to lose.
BACK to the home front.
In Washington, President
Eisenhower says he wants not
only a balanced budget from
the congress but enough fed
eral revenue to start REDUC
ING the staggering public
debt.
iyHY does he have to FIGHT
' for an objective as laud
able as that?
The answer is simple.
A very large number of the
members of the congress be
lieve that huge public spend
ing is popular and that a large
majority of the voting. public
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Weather Is always a safe
topic.
It was an interesting one,
too, last week, when the tem
perature soared to 96 degrees
on Tuesday, and then Thurs
day morning it rained like
anything.
It reminds of Mark Twain's
remark anent the New Eng
land climate, to the effect that
if you don't like the weather,
just wait a few minutes.
Oh, it's spring all right. A
friend who lives in e small
neighboring town reports
that it must be, because in
recent days he has observed
youngsters who have: cut a
finger whittling a boat,
been hit over the eye with a
baseball bat, shot off e
rocket, run barefoot,
brought home a stray pup
py, played hooky from Sun
day school and counted
the days until school is out.
,
Spring brings many things.
This year it brought to the
valley a visit by 22 members
of the Oregon State college
farm crops club.
They had dinner at the
Eagle Point Grange hall one
night, and breakfast there the
next morning. No tabulation
of their consumption at din
ner was recorded, but for
breakfast, the good ladies of
the Grange reported in some
awe, they ate 20 pounds of
country sausage, five dozen
eggs, and 10 pounds of pan
cakes. One local entreperneur
who runs his business from
his home has solved his
communications pro bltm.
He has two telephones one
for his business and one for
his wife.
People-plain, ordinary peo-ple-who
have made the ad
justments necessary for a suc
cessful marriage, can be for
given if they look with just a
little cynicism at the antics of
some of the Hollywood crowd.
We have reference, of
course, to the recent marriage
of a young singer and a young
actress - good looking kids,
both of them, and probably
with decent enough motives-'
who flaunted their lack of
basic morality in the faces of
the world last week.
Are they to blame?
With this funny, mixed-up
world the way it is, the an
swer probably is both yes and
no. They lacked the moral
stamina, the loyalty,' the com
mon decency to make a go of
previous marriages, and to
preserve the amenities of life
by waiting for a period before
rushing off, amidst popping
flash-bulbs, for a "honeymoon
in Spain,"
But, as mentioned, they are
still young. And more import
ant, they live in a world of
false values, of big money
which according to some stan
dards is mostly unearned, of
public adulation. It takes a
pretty stable character not to
let the entertainment world
turn one's head, and form a
distorted picture of what is
fair and honest,, and what is
cheap and shoddy and false.
We don't blame them, par
ticularly. But we can feel
darn sorry for them. They're
letting sex and glamor and
excitement fill a void which
happier people fill with love
and loyalty and perseverance
and with all the little annoy
ances, triumphs, difficulties
and the basic underlying un
derstanding which go into a
successful marriage.
The cynicism of some of
us was rather well put by
an editorial writer on the
Eugene paper, who started
out this way: "By the time
this appears in the paper,
Eddie Fisher and Lis Tay
lor will be married, and, if
it appears soon enough, they
will still be married."
Did vou hear of the psychi
atrist who received a postcard
from a former patient saying,
'Having a wonderful time.
Why?"
It's easy to find the stan
dard of living you can af
ford. It's the one you were
on before you got your last
two raises.
has no fear of snowballing
public debt.
So
Believing that
Thev think the wav to cet
votes is to spend more and
go deeper m debt.
HOW about you?
Are you ALL FOR more
spending and more debt?
Or are you gettmg a little
scared?
IF YOU'RE getting a little
scared, I suggest that you
write your senators and your
congressman and tell them so
-and why. Tell them in your
own words just how you feeL
If several million Ameri
cans were to do that-sincerely
and genuinely - the turn to
ward fiscal sanity in the
United States would come
with, surprising speed.