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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 7. 1949 (Tusjlaf)
Sen. Wayne Mors tell fel
low Republicans her B will
fight his next campaign "on
issues, and not personalitiet."
The Ashland city council
plans to petitionjpov. McKay
for decontrol of rent.
20 YEARS AGO
Jun 7. 1939 (Wdn9aay)
fine Medford Traffic Safety
council advises the citjj coun
cil that city traffic law n
f oreement should be stricter.
From Arthu Prry't "Y
Smudge Pot" column: "All re
ports to the contrary notwitn-
standing, the hay that we
rained pon, will not ,11 turn
cut to be seaweed."
30 YEARS AGO
June 7. 1929 (Friday)
Commencement for th hifh
school 1929 class is held at
the Craterian with 102 grad
uates the largest total . on
record in attendance.
Rains raise the .Rogue and
ruin early June fishing pros
pects. 40 YEARS AGO .
June 7. 1M9 (Sarursjt)
Fifty-eight per cent of Ore
gon's money isjeportedly de
posited in Portland banl
nounce that Armv plants wiiu
land at Gore field within 30
i i j sii ai ? mmT
minutes, but spectators wait
three hours, with business
meanwhile at a standstill,
50 YEARS AGO
June 7, 1909 (Monday)
Benjamin F. Heidel, federal
engineer, arrives to start work
on the Crater Lake road.
A federal postal inspector
Investigates Medford in con
nection with possible free
carrier service.
What's Your I.Q.? o
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five or
sis is good.
1. In the current Geneva
conferences, wha) shape of
table, did the Russian delega
tion insist upqg?
2. With what countr do
yo. associa ti xmf g
Kdtfrad AdeQ&iejW
3. Name (rife CfttfUfci chief
whose braQg) compls)Iy de
stroyed tne comixfjpiw ot Lrn
eral Custer. '
4. Wjtat aj$ tb$ pogs)r
names ror tog) two ,a of a
coin?
5. Does tl dStfl fpvern
ment pay premiuigfe fcr rf,r
currency?
6. Laudanum is tinctur
oi what drug?
7. How large would $ dry
ing be of a field 8 x 12 yrd,
if the scale of the drawing
were a half inch to the loot?
8. Who lends the money,
the mortgagor or the mort
gagee? v2 O
9. Who said, "Give me lib
4
NATIONAL
erty, or give me death?
10. Which cpiry in South
America c o v'e r the largest
area?
.. Answers: 1. Round. 2. West
Germany. 3. Sitting Bull. .
Obverse and reverse. 5. No.
6. Opium. 7. 12x18 inches.
8. Mortgagee. 9. Patrick
Hnry. 10. BraxiL
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Interim
The newly-enlarged Medford school district
will hold its annual budget election Tuesday. De
tails of the election, including polling places,
times, etc., appear elsewhere in today's paper.
We shall vote to approve the budget. We shall
do so for a large number of reasons which need
not be detailed here.
The point we wish to make, however, is that
patrons of the district should read the column of
Walter Lippmann which appears elswhere on this
page today.
THE question, to our
are spending TOO
question, and it is probably the most important
one facing America, today, is a double one:
1. Are we spending ENOUGH?
2. Are we spending it RIGHT?
The Killian report
enough: that indeed we
spend far more. As to whether we are spending it
me ngni way, mai is someinmg eacn voier win
have to decide for himself.
Any budget election is an interim decision, not
a long-range one. If you approve, in general
terms, the way the schools in this district are be
ing operated, you should vote "yes" on the budg
et. If you do not approve, you should vote "no."
But if you vote "no, you owe it to yourself and to
the students and the teachers and the school ad
ministrators to make known WHY. E.A.
Gold and Finance
The realm of government finance, fiscal pol
icy, money management and all their ramifica
tions are far beyond the understanding of the
average citizen this average citizen, anyway.
Most of us have to take pretty much on faith
! the word of the "experts" who are versed not
only in economics, but also in the political and
social aspects of government fiscal management.
What, for instance, are the government's rea
sons for pegging the price of gold? And how does
this affect, say, the miner in southern Oregon, the
maneuvers of the cold war, or our relationships
with the nations of western Europe?
NCE upon a time, gold was the standard of
exchange. A given amount of the metal was
worth so much in labor, or in goods.
But today the situation is far more complicat
ed. The money supply is managed, most of it is
in the form of credit anyway, and the relationship
of our gold supplies to the total amount of money
in circulation is purely coincidental.
Elsewhere on this page today are two commu
nications dealing with this general subject. One
is from an Ashland resident, who warns of the im
plications of a depleted
raising the price. The other is a letter addressed
to Congressman Charles O. Porter from the assist
ant secretary of 'the treasury on the same subject.
IN THIS subject, as in others, what may seem
like common sense to the ordinary individual
may be the sheerest lunacy when eyed in the light
or international demands and the requirements
of governmental fiscal policies. And these are
things which can be understood only after consid
erable study, and access
readily obtainable, nor
Ihis writer, for one lacks the necessary equip
ment to understand the
vaguest of ways, or to make judgments
Tl. - J? 1. . J 1
it is, m iaci, anomer symptom oi one oi to
day's illnesses the complexities of modern civil
ization, the highly, specialized knowledge needed
for a grasp of many of the branches of knowl
edge, and the almost impossible task of communi
cating, both between these special branches them
selves and between the "experts" and the intelli
gent citizen who simply lacks the background to
receive the message. E.A.
Interesting Interest
-
Speaking of gold (and, indirectly, of commu
nications), a woman up in Clackamas county has
turned up two "gold certificates" which were pur
chased in 1876, and left to her by a relative.
They were certificates of deposit with the
State Grange of Oregon, in the amount of $2i50
ach, and were to carry 10 per cent interest.
She figures that, including interest, they are
now worth in the neighborhood of $14,000 from
a $5 investment 83 years ago. And she is consult
ing an attorney to handle her claim.
, .
STATE GRANGE officials are a bit worried
about them, despite the fact they claim the
certificates were issued by a Grange-affiliated
cooperative which dissolved in 1886 after paying
on all its obligations.
They also claim that the statute of limitations
would have cancelled out such a debt.
But it also is reported that one Grange offi
cial privately offered the heir to the certificates
their face value, $2.50, for them.
Who is right and who wrong will presumably
be settled in the courts. .
NONETHELESS, it is
on such a windfall.
Ten per cent interest
years u our source oi lniormation is correct
this works out to $13,627.10 today, plus interest
Oa
mis year oi $,ZbZ.Yl.
As Frank Jenkms likes to say:
Hmmmmmm. Maybe we'd better check those
pid trunkg in tae garage
Choke
mind, is not whether we
MUCH on education. The
says we are not spending
must prepare ourselves to
supply of gold, and of
to facts which are neither
readily understandable.
situation, except in the
I r f i
interesting to speculate
on $5, compounded for
m m i
again. E.A.
Dennis the
'OOPS'. YOU 'ALMOST LOST
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE OLD GUARD MOVES
'Washington The Old
Guard Congressional Republi
cans are moving for almost-
total inde
pendence in
the party
sense, if not
necessarily on
all public is-
sues both
from the Ei
senhower Ad-
ministra t i o n
and the Re
publican Na
tional Committee.
They are striking up an in
creasingly sympathetic alli
ance, moreover, directly with
the most reliable traditional
contributors to the GOP. The
Congressional Old Guardists
believe , they wUl be able to
raise more money on their
own inintiative than the com
bined forces of the National
Committee and the Adminis
tration would ever raise for
them. Parenthetically, inde
pendent evidence rather sup
ports their judgment: there is
already a rising flow of money
to the GOP people in Congress
while the volume reaching the
National Committee is an em
barrassing trickle.
The Old Guard's conclusion
is that the party will be saved
in Congress in 1960, if saved
at all, almost exclusively by
their own efforts.
These extraordinary facts
and, one other are the real
background and inspiration
for next Monday's (June 8) un
precedented $100-a-plate fund-
raising "testimonial dinner
for present and former GOP
members of Congress. The
other extraordinary fact is
this: the regular Republicans,
particularly in the Senate, are
in the most candidly gloomy
mood for the. party's future
that this correspondent has
ever seen among any set of
politicians.
THE "testimonial dinner,"
therefore, is actually one
of the most significant held in
many years by a partisan
group. It is all these things:
1. A warning to the Admin
istration and the National
Committee that the Congres
sional Republicans are prepar
ing to run their own campaign
in 1960 with a degree of sepa
rateness from the national and
Presidential party organiza
tion that has rarely been seen.
2. A frank recognition
among the Congressional Old
Guardists that the GOP is in
deep trouble f ar deeper,
they believe, than the Presi
dent or his Administration as
sociates have sensed.
3. A notice that the Con
gressional Republicans will
no longer a'ceept the old fi
nancing method by which the
National Committee has doled
out to Congressional candi
dates a percentage of the
committee's total intake from
contributors.
"A percentage of nothing,"
Senator Barry Goldwater of
Arizona observes with a wry
grin "is still nothing." Gold
water, as chairman of the Sen
ate Republican Campaign
Committee, has the responsi
bility for trying to save the
11 GOP-held Senate seats that
will be at stake next year. Of
course, he talks publicly of
GOP gains. But it can be
stated responsibly that his
realistic goal is simply to
avoid further GOP losses
and this is a Senate where Re
publicans presently are out
numbered by Democrats, 64 to
34.
PERHAPS the best measure
of the critical nature of the
situation, as the Republican
Congressional people see it, is
this: They feel it would be
foolishly optimistic to assume
even that four of these seats
in the very heartland of Re
publicanism in Nebraska, in
Iowa, in Kansas, in South Da
kota will all be retained in
1860.
WUllam S.
White
Menaco
tT DOWN THAT HOLE
S. WHITE
Thus, they are really open
ing now, a year and a half
ahead of the showdown, the
Congressional campaign of
1960. It is Goldwater's con
viction that it would be im
possible to start too early.
And thus, they are reaching
out now for campaign money,
not from the national party
organization, with which in
this regard they are thorough
ly disenchanted, but from
their old-line businessman
friends. '
They are competing just
short of openly , with the Na
tional Committee for Republi
can money. The committee
never wanted to approve their
dinner project in the first
place. Committee leaders re
luctantly assented only after
Congressional Old Guardists
had told them in substance:
"You wUl go along with
this, or we wiU go out in the
country and publicly race
with you for money. We will
aU then see how much will go
to the National Committee
and how much to us." The
National Committee did not
care to see the issue drawn
quite that fine.
In the Day's News
By PRANK JENKINS '
This screwbaU world note:
A Florida segregation lead
er leveled a blast the other
day at the children's story
classic "The Three Little
Pigs," asserting that clever
"integrationists" have taken
over the tale and are trying
to "brain wash American
youngsters with a version of
it that pictures a black pig as
superior to a white pig."
He wants the Three Little
Pigs books taken off all the
shelves.
LET'S see.
The story concerns three
little pigs that started out in
the world to make their for
tunes. Their first task was to
build houses that would shel
ter them from the storms and
fend off the big bad wolf.
The first little pig built his
house of straw . . . and . . .
in the course of time . . .
along came the big bad wolf
and demanded to be let in.
The little pig responded: "No,
no, by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin."
Whereupon the
big bad wolf huffed and he
puffed and he blew the house
in . . . and ate the little pig
aU up.
And so with the second lit
tle pig. He built his house of
sticks . . . and along came the
big bad wolff and he huffed
and he puffed and he blew
the house in . . . and ate the
little pig all up. . .
THE third little pig was the
WISP, on TTP. hnilt his
house of BRICKS ... all
tight and strong. And when
the big bad wolf came along
and got the word that the
wise' little pig wouldn't let
him in he huffed and he puff
ed hut he COULDN'T blow
the house in. It had been too
stoutly and wisely built by
the third little pig.
The upshot of it was that he
tried to come down the chim
ney, but, the third little pig
. . . the wise and smart one
. . . out-thought him and boil
ed a kettle of water over the
fire and the big bad wolf feU
into it and was COOKED, and
the third little pig ate the
WOLF all up.
BUT now -In
these screwball days
Along comes a PROPA
GANDIST and seeks to turn
this charming little folk tale
that has put millions upon
millions of little children
peacefully and happily to
sleep into a vile and poison
ous propaganda weapon de
signed to turn human beings
against each other.
How silly can the world
fet? .
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Gold Restrictions
Editor's note: The following
letter was addressed to Con
gressman Charles O. Porter
of Oregon's fourth district. He
forwarded it to the Mail Trib
une for publication, in view
of the interest here in the
subject. See comment in edi
torial column.
Dear Mr. Porter:
You ask why th United.
States maintains an artificial
price on gold and silver. The
policy of the government in
purchasing and selling gold
at $35 per fine troy ounce
(minus or plus handling
charges), was set in 1934, pur
suant to the authority con
tained in Sections 8 and 9 of
the Gold Reserve Act of 1934.
It has been affirmed by the
Congress. For example, Con
gress in the Bretton Woods
Agreements Act authorized
participation by the United
States in the International
Monetary Fund. The United
States has an obligation under
the Articles of Agreement of
the Fund not to purchase gold
at more or sell gold at less
than $35 plus ,or minus the
margin prescribed " by the
Fund so long as the par value
of the dollar declared to the
Fund by the United States re
mains unchanged. Congress
further provided in the Bret
ton Woods Agreements Act
that a change in the par val
ue of the Unite States dollar
declared to the Fund shall not
be opposed or agreed to with
out authorization by Congress
by law.
We have made it clear on
many occasions that the fact
that the value of the dollar
is firmly linked to gold is im
portant to the soundness of
our economy.
Some persons believe that
the gold price of $35 per
ounce is too low, particularly
miners who find it dificult
to operate at that price. We
realize the plight of many
gold miners; but just as a
great many mines were un
profitable when the price was
fixed at $20.6? an ounce, so
a-e many mines unprofitable
at the price of $35 an ounce,
and so would many mines be
unprofitable at a higher price
for gold. To help submarginal
mines by raising the price of
gold would be to hurt our
economy as a whole by rais
ing the level of government
expenditures, needlessly in
creasing the basis for credit
expansion, and reducing con
fidence in the value of the
doUar. Gold production in the
United States amounts to on
ly about $65 mUlion annuaUy.
Total free world gold stocks
are estimated at $39.5 billion,
of which the United States
has about 51 per cent. If the
price of gold were raised as
an aid to our domestic indus
try, it would also affect the
large existing monetary stocks
and current world production
outside the United States.
Any increase in the price of
gold would give Russian-held
gold greater command over
free world goods and services
In view of the above, we
have firmly resisted any in
crease or decrease in the gov
ernment's gold price.
Purchases of gold by the
Treasury at the official price
do not involve a budgetary
expenditure. As the Treasury
buys gold, it generaUy replen
ishes its dollar balances by
issuing gold certificates to
the Federal Reserve banks
which credit the Treasury's
deposit account with a corre
sponding amount.
Laurence B. Robbins
Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury
Russian Gold Strategy
To the Editor: Frank Jen
kins' column in Wednesday's
paper, and others expressing
similar sentiments in national
magazines and syndicated col
umns, prove how far wrong
most "experts" are in then
appraisal of Communist gains.
If present trends continue, the
Reds will take the West on
schedule without firing a shot,
just as planned 40 years ago.
It wiU be done by control of
international trade, which
will bankrupt the West.
Today there is not enough
gold in Ft. Knox to back
American currency at present
reserve requirements, if aU
European nations having a
claim on American gold
should demand it, as many
now are doing. Rumors are
being planted in Europe that
the U. S. plans to raise the
price of gold from $35 per
ounce. This encourages Euro
pean nations to hoard gold,
anticipating a price rise, giv
ing more dollar credits or
making American goods
cheaper. Russia is offering
rubles backed by gold in
world trade deals. She has
the gold to back them.
Suppose America raises the
price of gold to $50 per ounce.
The official rates of exchange
ar 4 rubles to 1 dollar (black
Matter of Fact
"BOGUSLAW SENT ME"
Warsaw - The approach to
the speakeasy is through a
rubble-strewn courtyard, un-
.der a rickety
.scaffolding,
and then up
-flighfaf ter
.flight of un--swept
stairs.
If one of your
.party is
known, you
.are admitted
with no ques-
4Db umi uons asKea:
otherwise a friend's name
must be mentioned.
But it is enough to murmur
"Boguslaw sent me," and you
are welcomed to the tiny two
room apartment.
Nothing quite like this ap
artment exists anywhere else
in the world. No single piece
of furniture ' has not been
gravely' maimed or wounded
at some time in its past. But
this hardly matters; most of
the many visitors, whether
young or old, blue-jeaned or
bourgeois, arc content to sit
on the floor.
THE wares the speakeasy of
fers are at least hinted by
the apartment's decoration.
Abstract paintings, strange
and menacing construcions of
wire and masking tape, great
numbers of fragments of Pol-
market rates are much higher)
and a British pound is worth
$2.80 American. This makes
an ounce of gold worth 200
rubles or 17.86 British pounds
(use Francs or Marks here or
whatever you like).
Suppose Russia offers gold
to Britain for 15 pounds per
ounce. Who controls world
trade? What currency is the
world standard? Who wants
American high-priced goods
at official exchange rates?
This is . Red strategy. Ge
neva is only a sideshow. West
ern diplomats either are mor
ons or don't much care about
the outcome. The Bible is
God's word, it is the only
hope how.
Parker Bailey,
542VS A St.,
Ashland, Ore. ;
Reminiscences
- To the Editor: I toyed with
my baUpoint pen for quite
some time before I could
bring myself around to this
point. It was late Spring of
1941. 1 went to work for Maj.
Charles Cox of the Salvation
Army as caretaker at the
Lake of the Woods.
The camp opened on the
Fourth of July, and was
opened for seven weeks dur
ing the summer months for
the underprivileged children
One week for boys and one
week for girls. I worked with
the children, and also worked
on the boats and had taught
the children how to swim and
gave a lot of good advice to
a lot of young people and old
alike.
I was the mailman at the
Salvation Army camp. The
children were trained for boat
ing, fishing and swimming.
There were three strict
rules:
No. 1 "Don't s t a n d up in
the boat."
No. 2 "Don't fish from
slippery rocks or logs."
No. 3 "Don't wade in
strange waters." i
The children were taught,
if you get caught in a wind
storm and can't get ashore, lie
down in the bottom in the cen
ter if you can. In that position
you can ride out any storm.
While the camp was opened
I was up early and I would
have the stove hot for the
cook and I would make the
morning coffee and have a cup
or two.
After supper there was al
ways some activity around the
campfire for the children.
They would put on some little
pranks or sing songs.
The camp was full every
week for the seven weeks.
The camp would comfortably
hold between 75 and 100 each
week. The children would
come to camp from different
cities or towns by the bus
loads. They came from Med
ford, Grants Pass, Ashland,
Klamath Falls, Jacksonville
and Phoenix.
It was June 9, 1898. At that
date I arrived in San Fran
cisco from Chicago on the
Santa Fe train, then in Octo
ber 189? I arrived in Ashland,
Ore., and then I headed for
Jacksonville. There I looked
around for a place and I found
it and started me a lunch
counter and lived in that set
tlement that had been estab
lished as that of Jackson coun
ty seat.
I wish to thank all my good
friends.
D. E. Rogers
525 North Riverside ave.
Medford.
Water Problem
To the Editor: This letter
is intended for the eyes of
the citizens of Talent.
I have been a member of
this community for a compar
atively few years, but am
finding that every summer
we are faced with a water
shortage. This year is worse
than the past due to the fact
that we are not only restrict
ed to watering two days a
week but also have to pay
ish baroque church-sculpture,
two damaged but still magi
cal Polish-Byzantin icon,
the remnants of a beautifully
tender late Gothic altar pic
- all these and many other
objects are hung or strewn
about. And indeed the speak
easy's patrons do not com
for vodka but in search of pt,
or culture, or a new esthetic
insight, call it what you wiU.
For this is th apartment
of Myron Bialoszewski, th
most hermetic, the most ex
perimental, and among th
youths the most admired of
the newer Polish poets. Even
before the Stalinist times enfi
ed, Bialoszewski began to of
fer clandestine readings of hi
poetry and performances of
his satiric plays at an earlier
apartment-theater. It was il
legal, then. It is legal now.
Yet the speakeasy atmosphere
survives from the early times.
Nor is this atmosphere whoUy
false, since the fruit con
sumed, though not forbidden,
so to say, is at least strongly
disapproved.
THE performance itself is a
minor marvel of style and
ingenuity. Sacking and black
paper make the backdrop, de
signed by a leading Polish
abstract painter. The curtain
is sacking, too. The menac
ing constructions of wire and
masking tape turn up as quite
wonderful mask-headdresses
that transform the actors in
to faceless bureaucrats for a
Karka-touched dramatic po
em.
Bert Brecht, Kafka, Dada
in its first day, Jean Cocteau
when he was young - these
are the reminiscences one
feels. According to my earn
estly intellectual university
friends, Alex and Marious,
who call themselves "meta
physical existentialists," Bial
oszewski is also "obsessed by
suburbs," so perhaps there is
also a touch of John Betje-
man.
.- Young Bialoszewski him
self and a pretty artist-engin
eer-actress, Ludmilla Muran-
ska, are the chief mimes. Both
have great talent. The whole
performance is quite plainly
marked by a strange mixture
of wry near-lunatic wit, deep
world-sadness, and Alexandri
an hospitality to all. imagin
able cultural influences. So
much is legible in the general
style. But of course one can
not read the true meaning of
highly experimental work in
another language.
TN ANY cas. th Important
-I point about this semi-
speakeasy oi culture i not
the literal meaning of th
plays and poems that r
mimed there twice a week to
a tiny but full house. Th im
portant point is simply that
such an institution should -
ist on this side of the grim
line that divides the verlff,
here in Communist-ruled fo
land.
As Bialoszewski' poeti
and dramatic writing is whol
ly a-political, the existence of
his apartment-theater J per
haps less surprising than th
existence of th "Stodolt
This is another theater, sup
ported by th Warsaw Poly
technic students, of all peo
ple, erected by another bril
liant younger poet, Choinski,
and housed in a barn that de
fiantly faces Stalin's mon
strous gift to Warsaw, the
Palace of Culture. Here, in
the frightful shadow of the
old tyrant's ghost, as it were,
plays, are off ered that briskly
mingle the most experimental
writing with sharp political
satire.
The "Stodola" in turn is
still less surprising than the
recent enormously successful
publication of the book on
Spinoza called "Antinomies of
Freedom," by the leading Po
lish philosopher, Leszek Ko
lakowski. Around his study of
his mighty predecessor, Kola
kowski has woven a bold dia
logue on freedom, morality,
and government. His book, re
portedly, is a seminal and in
novating masterwor k. The
West will soon be able to test !
this judgment, since French
translation and publication of
the book have already been
arranged.
THIS is not to say that the
intellectual life of Gom
ulka's Poland is wholly free.
The poet, Adam Vazyk, has
been denied a passport to
the unreasonable price of $1
per thousand gallons over five
thousand gallons.
It doesn't require very
much imagination to see that
the average person cannot af
ford to water gardens, flow
ers or lawn under these rates.
I feel that this problem
should be brought to the at
tention of the city "council. I
would appreciate considera
ble support in this matter...
For all who are interested
the Talent city council, is
meeting Tuesday, June 9, at 8
p.m. at the Talent city hall.
Allen Adams
107 Valley View st.
Talent, Or.
POTLUCK
(By fl-T Staff and
Contributors)
Ou Kioenix friend, the '
Typographical - Error - Hunter
im till t it, after his un ex
pis, in t absence of some
(IncidentaUy, this was writ
tan bfors he had a chance
to check ove? Friday's paper.
TH1RE was a fertile field of
ndetv for a TEH.) ; " ;
Anyway, last week's mai"
from Phoenix brought this
digPfcd headline: "Meany
Urges House (Approval -of.
Striped-Down Union Reform
Measure."
Our friend's comment was,
"This is decidedly incongru
ous. HORIZONTAL stripes
r universaUy associated
with the type of reform need
ed in the labor racket"
Th fellow who nevsr ad
vertises, w ar told, is lik '
th man who winks at a
girl in a dark room. H
knows what h's doing, but
sh doesn't.
Headline writers ate sup
posed to keep their opinions
and emotions out of the head
line-writing they do, but once
m a while they tend to creep
in. ,
This thought is a result of
a headline we spotted in the
Ashland Tidings last week, ov
er a story about Elvis You-.
Know-Who and the postpone
ment of his tonsil operation.
it said:
Won't Slice
Elvis' Throat
Until Later
We may not (necesarily)
joi in the unspoken thought,
Dut we can, at least, under
stand it.
-
. Employees of th stai de
partment of forestry ar x -nosed
io various hazftrfa in
th court of their werk,-
bui ihav hardlv mv a
b. attacked by grouse. It
happened, though, to How- t
ard Brock and Paul Matte
son. Ii aeiuallv r-hacaii ftiatm
for 100 feet as they retreat,
d down th road.
mere nave oeen news stor
ies in recent days about the
number of marriages in Ore
gon as compared to the num
ber of divorces. The latter
have been numerous.
Anyway, it may not be a
subconscious reaction to these
stories, but a couple of clerks
in th courthouse have had
lBss which indicate other
Vis. On, for iif2ance, found
nrself) entering the names of
th couple applying for a
marriage license, and then
adding the word "Inc.'o(We
always thought marriage was
more of a partnership than a
osporation.)
Another one may have been
acting, too, when she put
lofn "vs." between the
name of the prospective cou
gl0. That's the way divorce
groceedings are entitled.
Th 4-H wagon xrk to
Corvallis from Medford is
attracting considerable at
tention thes days, as th
big day nears. And our staff
member who has been clos.
st to this project sine its
beginning has furnished us
with som anecdotes con
cerning it.
For instance, the boys who
are going decided that, since
there was no women's suf
frage 100 years ago, the girls
shouldn't be permitted any
leadership positions.
They compromised with lat
ter-day democracy, however,
when they finally decided to
allow them to VOTE for lead
ers. travel abroad, and so have
two or three other writers.
The censor sometimes wields
a heavy hand, especially on
writing that is judged "too
sad." Moreover, the party au
thorities, whose taste in the
rts must rather closely re-
semble the taste of Presidents
Eisenhower and Truman, are
quite visibly bewildered and
horrified by Poland's rich in
tellectual and creative life.
But it must be admitted that
the Minister of Culture him
self strongly recommended a
visit to the "Stodola."
By the same token, the Rus
sian intellectuals who come
here are either shocked and
frightened out of their wits
or totally intoxicated. Many
Russians have learned Polish,
in order to reach such writers
as Kafka and Joyce who have
only been published in Polish
in the Communist world. Vis
iting Russians continuously
sweep Warsaw clean of the
reproductions of modern
Western painters that are pro
duced here. As for the Poles,
one wonders whether their in
tellectual and creative lifeis
not so rich and vivid preefse
lybecause they are stimulat
ed by "fear of the great des
ert on the edge of which we
live," as one of them put it
to me. (7)
(c) 1959 tffr York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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