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wircairiitt Adlvoses Vyim5i Am B"DDU Editor! not: A Tear ago at this time. United Press International distributed a remarkable gradua tion day address to American youth oy Will Onrant, one of the most respected of contemporary histor ians and philosophers. Graduation time is at hand again and Mr. Dnrant's words, republished here with, are as timely today a they were la 1958 and will be In 197S. ByWlLLDURANT Historian, Philosopher (Distributed by UPI) A task has been assigned to me, and I propose to go through with it as modestly as its inherent immodesty will permit. II now I dare to ad dress you, i. is not as one white with wisdom or prac ticed in the 'vays of the world, but as a fellow student handi capped with senility, yet as eager as ever to learn some thing between every rising and setting of the sun. You must season my platitudes with a grain of doubt, and grant me 1he tolerant allow ances that ;vouth must always make for age. My first request to you is be healthy. It is mostly with in your will. In many cases sickness is a crime. You have done something physiological ly foolish, and nature is being hard put to it to repair your mistake. The pain is the tui tion you pay for your in Lstruction in living. Care of the health should be a re quired course, for at least an hour each week, in every year from kindergarten to Ph.D Such a course would include thorough instruction in diet Our bodies are what we eat, plus what our ancestors ate. Don't let restaurants tempt you: they are the vampires of the stomach: they will burden your flesh in proportion as they liehten your purse. One SHADY COVE-TRAIL ' Lloyd Davis Honored m Bt EVALYN P. WATSON Shady Cove-Trail - Lloyd Davis of Shady Cove was hon ored on his birthday at a fam ily dinner at the home of his on-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Waltz, of Shady Cove. Two other sons-in-law and daughters were present, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Weitman of Shady Cove and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bishop of Medford. Davis' son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Davis, Sparks, Nev.. Joe Waltz's mother, Mrs. Waltz, and sister, Belle Waltr. of MuiDhv. Ore., and friends of the family, Mr. and Mrs. Don Silver, of Shady Cove, also were present, Daxis cousin, Lee McKendry, of Illinois was a guest of Davis arnd the Waltz's. Davta t sow on a trip with ,Mr. and Mrs. Roy Davis to Van Buren, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Osborne of Eureka, Calif., visited Os borne's ' mother, Mrs. Ellen Osborne, of Shady Cove last week end. " Mr. and Mrs. Jim Boehlke of New Westminister, British Calumbia, were guests last week end en route to Cali fornia of Boehlke's sister, Mrs. Adeline Carl, of Shady Cove. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McDaniel of Trail have been Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hunter of Pasadena, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Grow and family7 of Shady Cove are moving to a residence at Camp White where Eldon is em ployed. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Meyer of Trail are moving into the Grow house. Mr. and .Mrs. William Schultz of Shady. Cove were hosts on Saturday for a pot luck dinner . and. pinochle party. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Miles Williams, 'Mr. and Mrs. Ed Strother, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bartuss and Dr. and Mrs. Verne Wilson, all of Shady Cove, and Miss Ann Forbes of San Diego, Calif., aunt of Mrs. Wilson and Miss Marge Sandfort of Medford. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bartuss of Shady Cove have been Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fox and daughter, May Marie of Los Angeles. Catechism classes ana re ligious instruction for youth will be held at Our Lady of Fatima church and Parish hall in Shady Cove from June 8 through 21 with First Com munion Sunday being held for the first communicants on Sunday, June 21. All children wishing to attend are welcome. Smith home Saturday. Those attending were Jackie and Joey Hume, Willie Poitevint, Randy Sikes, Duke Wilde and Mary Ann Elrod and Neil Cooper of Trail and .Larry Smith, Gary Ayres, Delberta Spain, Carol Smith, Sharon Smith, Jack Darrohn, Suzi Chubb. Bill Pfeifer, Benny Norkl Norma Noble, all of Shady Cove, and Ray Bitter ling. Dewey Henderson, Dick Hertager, Steve Geren, Don Arnold and Tom Perdue, Eagle Point. Entertainment was also provided by the Per sonalities, a singing four-some made up of Bill Pfeifer, Benny Nork, Duke Wilde and Don Arnold. .Mrs. Betty Hamilton and family of Hilts, Calif., have been visiting Mr.' and Mrs. Pete Kness of Trail. , Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Youngchild . of Shady Cove have been their son-in-law and daughter,' Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vellineave and chil dren, Joseph, Rene and Rus sell, of Kent, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor and family of Trail moved this week end to 2252 Table Rock rd., Medford. The new owners of the ranch are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Eastman and children of Buckeye, Ariz., and East man's brother, Jess Eastman. Thev have purchased the ranch from George Murphy, Eastman's parents are also planning to join them and live on the ranch. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, June 1, 1959 of the cardinal errors of our time and land is to continue in a warm and sedentary life the diet that once served to provide necessary muscle and heat. Let us keep our inners clean. The hospitals are lit tered with people who have put too great strain on their digestive organs and have al lowed an excess of imports over exports to disturb their internal "economy. Do some physical work every day. Nature intended thought to be a guide to ac tion, not a substitute for it. Thought unbalanced by action is a disease. Cut the lawn, clean the car, paint the house rather than the town, help with the dishes after the eve ning meal. Help your wife with her work, - and let her help you with yours.Husband and wife should be helpmates. Marriage disintegrates when it is only a. partnership in sex, play and conspicuous expense. SEX - r After hunger, sex is our strongest instinct and greatest problem. Nature is infatuated with continuance and dolls up the voman with beauty and the man with money, to lure them into propagation; and so it gives to us males such sen sitivity to the charms of wom en that. we can go quite mad in their pursuit. Sex then be comes a fire and flame in the blood and burns up the whole personality - which should be a hierarchy and harmony of desires. . ' ' Our civilization has unwise ly stimulated this sexual im pulse. Our ancestors . played it down, knowing that it was strong enough without prod ding. We have blown it up with a thousand forms of in citation - advertisements, em phasis and display - and have armed it with the doctrine that inhibition is a mistake - whereas inhibition - the con trol of the impulse - is the first principle of civilization. Don't let indoctrination deter mine your desires. MARRIAGE Marriage was probably de veloped not only for the bet ter care of children and prop erty, but to save us from the tyranny of sex. In marriage that instinct is given abund ant freedom, but it is chan neled within limits consist ent with social order. But sub mitting to marriage we can take our minds off sex, and become adult. Marry as soon as you can keep the wolf from the door. You will be "too young to choose wisely, but you won't be much wiser in these mat ters at 40. There's no fool like an old fool in love. We par ents should help you to get started in wholesome married life: help you with money, end -if you will permit us-with counsel. Don't let your choice of a mate be determined by the accident of association at a time of physiological needs; don't buy a grab bag in a coma. Let at least three months intervene between ac quaintance and betrothal, and between betrothal and mar riage. APPLEGATE VALLEY , Residents Are Witnesses Mrs. Kenneth Paulson of Shady Cove went to Caluso, Calif., recently where she went to get Lee Davis of Ash land who was injured in an accident. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Monical and family of Shady Cove are moving from Art Hutchison's house to Mr. and Mrs. O. I Williams' house. Mr. and Mrs. Gale Friend of Shady Cove are parents of a girl weighing 6Vi pounds, born May 22 at Medford Os- teopathic hospital. The baby is the grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Mason of. Shady ; Cove. , Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Silver of Trail opened their fruit stand on the Crater Lake high way across from the Rogue Elk Friday Silver operated fruit: stands' at . Phoenix and ; Talent before going into the motel business at Big Bear ;Lake, Calif. Mrs. Mayme Trego of Bev ierly Hills, Calif., is a guest ' of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Miller of Trail -Mr. and .Mrs. Henry Rogers and niece, Lois Rogers, with .Mr. and Mrs. Estel Jones of Happy Camp, Calif., went to Milo Sunday where they at tended graduation exercises. ; Their daughter, Arlene, was graduated. Arlene is now . spending a week visiting the Jones' at Happy Camp. - A joint birthday party hon oring Bonnie Smith of Shady Cove and Lane and Jan Dusen berry of Trail was held at the Relatives here for the fun eral of Kenneth Paulson's uncle, Edmund Colpitts, of Medford. were Kenneth's uncles and family,' Mr. and Mrs. Bert Colpitts and Mr. and Mrs. Shorty Colpitts of Troy, Ore., his aunts, Mrs. Dorothy Carlton of Newport, Wash., and Mrs. Ruth Wortman of tmerpnse, , ore. Mrs. Carrie Zahn of Los Angeles is spending the sum mer at her home next to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. Ted Conway, on Rogue River dr. A family picnic was held on Sunday with four generations repre sented. The group ' went to Happy -Camp, Calif., where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jphn Reedy. Those making the trip were Mr. and- Mrs. Ted Conway and Conway's mother, Mrs. Carrie Zahn, of Shady Cove, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Reedy and children Cheryl and Cynthia, of Ashland. The four genera tions represented were two great grandmothers, Mrs, Martha Hiatt and Mrs. Carrie Zahn, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Reedy and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Conway, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Reedy and grandchildren, Cheryl and Cynthia Reedy. Mrs. Ed Learning of Shady Cove went to Portland and Albany where she was in a bowling tournament. While in Portland she visited Eds sister, Mrs. Al Hart. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sher man of Minneapolis, Minn., have been guests of the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Evers of Shady Cove. During their stay here Mrs. Sherman was guest soloist at the evening service of the Trail Community church. The official opening of the Rogue River Lodge under the new management was held May 15. Prior to the opening, the lodge under went com plete remodeling with the dining room and kitchen be ing redecorated. The banquet room is being remodeled, and cabins are being refurnished. New owners are Mrs. Iola Porterfield and Mr. and Mrs. Hank Keefer, all formerly of Redding. Mrs. Porterfield is a friend of the former owner, Mrs. Montie Gilhousen, and By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley - Several local cattlemen were called to Yreka recently as witnesses for Bates Lumber company of Merlin in a $16 million dam age suit brought against the company by Lucian and El- dred Cobb of Roseburg. Those testifying from here were Guy Watkins, Bert Harr and Lance Offenbacher. The Cobb, brothers claim that an access road built three years ago by the Bates com pany on Elliott, creek across the California line damaged their JJallodil mining prop erty: The suit has been in progress since September, the local men reported, and is said to be the longest case of its kind in Siskiyou county court records. The, gold mine was in operation in the 1930s . An advance meting of the newly appointed executive council of Ruch Parent Teach er association was held re cently to plan the fall pro gram. Attendance and mem bership will be stressed, ac cording to the president, Mrs Glen Travis. Children will make name tags for members to wear at each meeting, and a traveling nrize will be awarded the room with high est attendance. . Committee chairmen "in clude Mrs. R. E. Christean and Mrs. Jim Fossen, mem bership; Mrs. Neil Suttell, hospitality; . Mrs. Art Goss, health; Mrs. B. J. Hunter, re freshment; Delbert Whitley, ways and means: Mrs. Earl Best, Founders" Day; Bruce Matheny. safety: John Eek and Robert Rametes, recrea tion; Louis Straube, budget and finance; Ed Ramsey, legis lative; Mrs. Larry Tweedy, publicity. Jim Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mitchell, suf fered a broken thumb while has vacationed in this area for many years. Dale Sawyer of Shady Cove who underwent throat sur gery two weeks ago, is con valescing at home', but still has not .returned to his work at Camp White. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Peterson of St. Mary's, Idaho, spent several days visiting Roy's brother, John'. Peterson, of Shady Cove. - ', Mrs. Jacalvn Laneston and children, Jolin&a and Johnny, are living in Medford after having moved back up here from Sacramento,-Calif . Mrs. Langston is the daughter of Mrs. Carl Hanson of Shady Cove. . Mrs. Eva Segessenman of Shady Cove, ? chairman for both the American Red Cross and Cancer Society drives, an nounced that both funds are short of the expected quota and urges those who have not sent in their contributions to do so. . Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed win Strother of Shady Cove and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bauer, and family of Eugene, Ore. Bauer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bauer, of Milwaukie, Wis., and Mr. August Bauer of Copenhagen, Denmark. playing baseball at Jackson ville grade school. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Hall and family, accompanied by Byron Palmer and Fred Jones, Jacksonville High school stu dents, made a week end trip to Canada recently. They trav eled 200 miles into the Fra zier. river country, returning by way of eastern Oregon. Ed Ramsay has returned to farm duties after two weeks of treatment for a virus eye infection. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Travis and sons went on a trip to Crescent City and Brookings recently. Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Map ston returned Friday to their home in Stackett, Mont., after spending a few days here with Mapston's brother, Henry Mapston. . ' Mrs. Edna Sawyer is on a 10-day trip to Chehalis and Washougal, Wash., to visit relatives. She also will at tend memorial services at the new Willamette national cem etery at Portland. Wednesday 11 pre-school' children visited the primary room at Ruch for a preview of the first grade class they will enter this fall. Mrs. Neil Suttell assisted the teacher, Mrs. Ruth Granby. Prescribed children included Datherine Corbin, Roger Thomas, Rob ert Baylor, Jimmy Byrne, Shirley Cheadle, Daniel Hunt er, Steve Suttell, Janet Brown, Carmalita Spellman, Orlie Hall and Sandra Thames. Ben Schmidt of Oceanside, Calif., has arrived to spend the summer at the Schmidt cottage at Squaw lake. Rural Reflections: Elm a Christean, putting luscious berry and apple pies in the morning oven, as she made hamburgers for teen age ap petites, was recalling happy youthful days on a coastal farm, where she pitched hay in the field and mowed it away in the barn. Arlene Loses Punch; No Fatalities Reported wew Orleans -flJPD- Tropical storm Arlene flooded high ways, uprooted trees and knocked down power lines along the central Louisiana coast Friday but lost its punch as it moved inland. There was no loss of life reported, and property dam age was relatively light. But scores of families left their homes for refuge in public buildings, and heavy rains ac companying the storm con tributed to a wave of traffic accidents in many parts of the southeast. Washington-flJPfl-Senate foes of 63-year-old Lewi3 L. Strauss claimed yesterday they have the strength to block his con firmation as secretary of commerce-by filibuster if necessary. Garden Sandast McGiniy Fuel Go. Ph. SP 3-6297 The difficulties of marriage are far less than its rewards. One touch of a woman's hand can be a paradise, if the touch is not for too much. Napoleon said that the only happiness he had? ever known was in loving his children; and I hope you won't have children with out marriage. CHARACTER unaracter comes on a par with health; intellect may come third. The greatest task assumed by such schools as this is to transform egos into gentlemen. A gentleman, as my wife once defined it, is a person continually consider ate. Kind words cost so little and are worth so much! Speak no evil of anyone: every un kind word will sooner or later fly back into your face, and make you stumble in the race of life. De vivis, rather than de ' mortuis, nil nisi bonum. To speak ill of others is a dis honest way. of praising our selves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encourag ing things, say nothing. Noth ing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. RELIGION Religion has been along with the family 'and the teach er, a tutor of character. For 50,000 years or more man lived as a hunter before he took to tilling the soil. Prob ably man's native character as it is today was formed in that hunting life. He had to be greedy because the' food sup ply was precarious and irreg ular: he had to be pugnacious A 7- i. a 1 - i io iignt ior iooa ana maies: he had to be easily stimulated to reproductive ecstasy, be cause a high birth rate seemed desirable. What are now, through excess,1 our major vices, were then virtues-qualities making for survival of the individual or the group. When agriculture developed, and social organization be came the chief tool for sur vival, these powerful impulses had to be restrained. They were restrained by a moral code transmitted through par ental authority, family disci pline and religious instruc tion. That moral code, though against the grain of the flesh, was accepted partly through fear of parents and very much through belief that the code came from an all-seeing God who would reward every vir tue and punish every vice. I am not sure that civilization could have come without such religious sanctions of the moral code. Those of you who specialize in science will find it hard to understand religion, unless you feel, as Newton and Vol taire did, that the harmony of the spheres reveals a- cos mic mind, and unless you real ize as Pascal and Rousseau did, that man does not live by intellect alone. We are such microscopic particles in so vast a universe that none of us is in a position to un derstand the world, much less to dogmatize about it. Pascal trembled at the thought of man's bewildered minuteness between the two infinites-the immensity of the . whole and complexity of each part. ,"These infinite spaces," he said, "frighten me!" Let us be careful how we pit our pitiful generalizations against the infinite scope, variety and subtlety .of the world. MONEY Money builds an economic basis under your life, but don't get caught in the rat trap of money-making as a profession; that, too, like sex can be a consuming fever and brings only fitful pleasures, no healthy happiness. Your wife will have the responsibil ity of stimulating you to de velop all your creative capaci ties, but I hope she will not insist on your keeping up with all the Joneses in the town. If you become an employer, your relation with your em ployees will count forbore in your Jiappiness than add ing a zero to your wealth. Give every employee the full equivalent of his share in the product. Don't live in a boast ful and selfish luxury based on taking more from the world than you give. POLITICS Don't take politics too ser iously. Expect to reform the government only after you have reformed human nature and your own. Corruption is natural in government be cause it is nature in man. Don't be frightened by the in ternational situation; it is nor mal; man is a competitive' ani-man,- individually and in groups. Peace is war by other means. I believe that intelli gent fear will keep us from international suicide. Evils usually beget their cure through their excess; so now the balance of terror is mak ing for peace. How good it is that the mili tary competition is changing to economic competition! Let the better system win, or a combination. We are witness ing in America - a Hegelian synthesis of capitalism and socialism, taking the virtues of each; and this merger, I be lieve, will be more produc tive of goods and happiness than the fearful communism of Russia or the selfish capital ism of the not very Gay Nineties. See, even in depres sion time, the relative happi ness and exuberance of the American people, killing one another ecstatically in the pre cipitate pleasure of their holi days. -INTELLECT I take intellect for granted in your, case; indeed, our schools have put too much stress on intellect, too little on character. We have sharp ened our wits even while weakening our restraints. In my youth I used to talk about the bondage of tradition; now, as befits- old age, I distrust the. fetishism of novelty. We exaggerate the value of new ness in ideas and things. It is so much easier to be original and foolish than to be original and wise. For every truth there are a thousand possible errors. Let us not try to ex haust the possibilities. . Most of you now will go to college, and the sharpened competition among individ uals and nations will force you into intellectual specialties. The stress on science today is so strong that college, if I may pun a bit, will give you only a passing acquaintance with literature, history, phi losophy, music and art. But don't let yourselves be frag mented. When your formal educatfon is complete, give at least two hours, a week to rounding yourselves out with these flowers of civilization. Make friends with great poets - Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shake speare, Moliere, Goethe, Bjn-on, Shelley, Keats, Whit man. Acquaint yourselves with the world's supreme art -Egyptian, Indian, Greek and Roman architecture and sculp ture, Arabic mosques and dec oration. The Gothic cathe drals, Renaissance painting, music from Bach to Rachman inoff. Study the great states men from Hammurabi and Moses to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Sit for a while at the feet of great thinkers Confucius, Socra tes, ' Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epicurus, Archimedes, Lucre tius, Epictetus, Marcus Aure lius, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Newton, Kant, Schopenhauer, Darwin, Nietzsche, Einstein. Enjoy great prose writers -Isaiah, Jeremiah, the authors of the Proverbs and the Psalms, Demosthenes and Ci cero, Rabelais and Montaigne, Miltor and Swift, Voltaire and Rousseau, Hugo and Bal zac, Tolstoi and Dostoevski, Emerson and Anatole France. Follow man's , odyssey .with great historians Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Gibbon, Macaulay, Guizot, Michelet, Froude and Taine. Walk hum bly with the great saints Buddha, Jesus, Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Gandhi. I shall not hold you educated unless you make many of these geniuses your friends. Cultivate them and you will be molded by the company you keep. THE MOUNTING HERITAGE These and the whole world of knowledge, technology, morals, manners, government, literature, philosophy and art are your heritage, which has grown incredibly through the centuries, and is so rich that you will never be able to ab sorb it all, to reach the bot tom of this Fortunatus, purse of the race. This is the patri mony that each of us inherits on entering civilization. Good health to you, good work, good fortune, good character, good children, good grandchildren! Drink the brimming cup of life to the full and to the end; and thank God and Nature for its brac ing trials and challenges, its educative punishments and re wards, its priceless gifts and inexhaustible treasure of beauty, wisdom, labor and love. Robert DeLorme, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Announces Removal of His Office to the Century Building (Formerly Community Hospital) FOR GRADUATION TRI-TAPER The Luggage That Defies . Comparison - '- w On the Balcony .1,, ) j., I "I. 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