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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or, C Sunday, March 27, 1960 Appling Questions Register Contest Portland -(UPD-State Demo cratic Chairman Robert Straub said Thursday there wasn't anything wrong with a contest to ge'; voters of his party to register. Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. asked Straub for more information about the contest which has two round- trip flights to the Democratic national convention as first Prize. pling said that it seemed to him. from the Democratic announcement that it was the canvassers who would do the registering. This, said Ap- pung, isn t legal. Official reg istrars must register voters he pointed out. But Straub said the party workers would not do the reg istering, only inform and ad vise persons who are not reg istered where to do so. School News McLoughlin Junior High By Sandra Hager Special subject tests were given at McLoughlin this week. Department tests will be given Tuesday and Wed nesday with report cards is sued April. 6. ' The varsity band will spon sor a dance Friday evening, Tickets will be on sale this week. On April 1 at 10 a.m. in the boys' gym Torch Honor will hold installation ceremonies for students now eligible for membership based on first semester grades and other qualifications. Students to be inducted from the ninth grade are Martha Graham, Howard Hau gen, Robbie Hoag, Judy Hue ners, Larry Sander and Larry Smith. Eighth grade inductees will be Gayle Offenbacher, Linda Taylor and Marilyn Watkins. . . - r Seventh graders who met all the qualifications are Mary Bannister, Sharon Bross, Douglas Eakin, Patricia Gla thar, Susan Gordon, Betty Lou Hatch, Ann Jensen, Ste phen Lamb, Carole Leon, Vic tor Snyder, Catherine Watson, Douglas Wolf and Rhoda Work. Besides maintaining a 3.5 grade average, the. students must be outstanding in lead ership, character, service and citizenship. Parents of the new inductees are invited to at tend the installation. Seventh grade girls are signing up for the badminton tournament to get under way soon. Tournament games will be played during seventh pe riod and after school in the girls' gym. Hedrick Junior High By vicki toenniges Students from the Hedrick band and orchestra are parti cipating in the solo and en semble contest being held at Medford High school. Mrs. Mary Anne Smith, Mrs. Naomi Van Dyke, Wil liam Ruck, and Robert Se men, high sihool counselors, registered ainth graders for their sophomore years on Tuesday and Friday. Marriage Vows Can't Be Changed Because Of Deep-Hearted Belief in Ancient Lines This week marks the end of the third nine week period. Exams are scheduled on Tues :Hav. Wednesday, and Thurs- day. Report cards will be sent . home next week. ' The Elk's circus will be in the Hedrick gym Monday, March 28. The show promises r rrwirie eood circus enter tainment. There will be a matinee and evening perform ance. i-nrtpl teachers for the spring quarter at Hedrick are: Ralph Sieger with Ray Gra-s, Bob Alley with Don "Ferguson, James Shrum with Tom Colley, Lance Locke with Mrs. Vida McCarley. and Mr. Olson with Mrs. Glori anna Littman. ThP seventh grade assembly featuring a trip through space was presented Friday. Among the acts were "The Chipmunk Song " John Ead's magic, the Charleston, "Everybody Loves a Lover," and seventh or.H. cirl's ensemble. Master of ceremonies was Fred Haupert. ' Hedrick Future Homemaker of America will sponsor a -Fool-s Flip" April 1 for all Hedrick Junior High students. A king and queen wil be chosen from the class selling the most couple tickets. The class selling the next highest number of couple tickets will choose a prince and princess. The class with the least num ber of couples will choose the court jesters. Entertainment. will be pro vided by the Shadows. Eleanore Alfonso is general chairman for the dance and will serve as mistress of cere Strengthening Marriage "I'll give them six months, maybe a' year, before they break up," said an acquaint ance at the wedding. ' "They'll run into the real ities of marriage like a stone wall-and then, poof, they'll be shopping for a quick di vorce," said another. And then the timeless ca dence of the organ filled the air and in a moment,- over a blessed hush, came the words," ... to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part ..." Quite a contrast between what was being said in the pews and at the altar. But then there is a contrast, a harsh one, between the atti tudes of a million and a half couples who promise their everlasting love in marriage ceremonies each year and about one-fourth that number who cast each other out in the divorce courts. If we have come to accept marriage as a temporary ar rangement, why don't we say so? Why don't we change the vow? Make it read, ". . . to love and to cherish for the time being," or "to live to gether until we get tired of each other," or "to sue each otaer, to accuse each other, to abandon each other if the going gets rough." We don't change the vow because, in our hearts, we still believe in the ideal which those ancient lines set forth. An aspiration toward a per manent love relationship be tween male and female is something which is built into us. We don't choose or reject it. It is there. This is how George Elliott Howard, au thor of "History of Matrimo nial Institutions," defines marriage: "A solemn contract be tween a man and woman, by which they are united for life ... It has existed in all ages and probably in all na tions. . . It is not the inven tion of legislators, but arose from the instincts and ne cessities of society, and its continuance has been pro vided for by the dictates of experience." Marriage, as an institution, has not failed us. It is we, as a generation, who have failed marriage. We have been call ed "the gutless generation" because so many of us can not stick to our promises, be cause we pledged eternal love one moment and walk out the next; we have lost the mean ing of loyalty; we are quit ters. One judge in a divorce court commented, "Some peo ple don't think much more of a divorce than of trading in an old car." Another re marked, "They're beginning tO regard a marriage license as something you can just take down to City Hall and have cancelled." Divorce Doesn't Help This is how it must seem to a judge who sees couplea come before him in endless procession, 20 or 30 in one morning, reciting grievances which may range from a wife's complaint that , her husband watches too much TV to a husband's objections to his wife's pet cat. But beneath the court evi dence, which often is surface- scratching and sometimes ri diculous, is the undeniable fact that a couple aren't get ting along. So they want out. But will "out" help them face life any better in the future?" Repeated studies show that people who have been di vorced actually have a slim mer chance for happiness in subsequent re-marrlage than they did before. Thomas P. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo DOtfT THINK THEy ARE HIS TICKETS.' THAT'S EVEN HIS SUIT.' Nl inc VTMI ICK NEVER FORGETS TO PUT HIS CARDS ON THE TABLE THE ONES THAT SAV.THE TICKET DOES NOT INCLUDE THE TIP 7" - : : : 1 TRYING TO f I DONT THINK THEy ARE irrMOSiDA (COLLECT ONCE, ( HIS TICKETS.' THAT'S NOT J JnTiiSSi donT kid me." Mis our problem.' J v even his suit rJv H XDISTINCTLV ( THE Vl!ll! J i T GIVE ME YOUR rf S T, TO??1?-? f Ma-EMTDVOU? 1 I ' f. The dinner dance DUCAT DILEMMA-STARTS THE PARTY OFF WRONG EVERY TIME IHanx and our hat is off 1b HERMAN BRODEG, 97z Broad St.. NEWARKj N.CC (4 Ml I 9M Monahan, after, an analysis of divorce records in Iowa and Missouri, reported: "Re marriages are not as endur ing as first marriages and the probability of divorce rises with each successive mar riage." One need only to visit the Divorcees Anonymous, groups in any of the cities where they have taken hold. A spokesman for the organiza tion said to me, "The one thing we've learned is that making a marriage work-no matter how long it takes or how much effort or sacrifice it requires-is better than di vorce. What we all wouldn't give for a chance to live that first marriage over again!" No Magic Solution Many men and women have behaved like spoiled children They have gone into marriage expecting some mag ical solution to life's prob lems; a guarantee of ready m a d e happiness was what they wanted and they would settle for nothing less. When marriage' failed to turn into this infantile fairyland they turned their backs on it; they quit. Shouldn't human beings be made of sturdier stuff? Shouldn't they know-by. the time, they reach marriageable age-that marriage is not a pat answer to happiness? Nor was it ever intended to be. It is simply an opportunity a chance to achieve happiness on a new mature level of living. Too many have been naive, like the college girl who said, "I can't decide whether to get married next vacation or come back and face all my problems." Successfully married cou ples know that problems are a part of life and that the very growth of love stems from coping with problems together. A friend said to one couple who had been married 12 years and were deeply in love, "You must be very hap pily married-or else you must work at it very hard." "Is one possible without the other?" the wife replied. We Need Loyalty We have made a great coun try not by shrinking from problems or quitting in the face of difficulty. Why have so many of us conked out on marriage? Have we dropped the word loyalty from our vocabularies or forgotten what it is to 1 sep faith? Mar riage is a promise, a vow, and a contract. How glibly we break it!. In business, contracts are held quite sacrosanct. We de scend with the sanctions of the law upon contract break ers. Imagine the chaos in the business world if one contract out of four were broken-as in marriage. ' With children we accept the permanence of parent hood. We can have difficult ies with our children some times, we can be angry with them-even furious with them on occasion-but we do not cast them out. We do not divorce our children. Any one who abandoned his child would be at heart a black guard and at law a criminal. We have loyalty to our country. This, too, may at times involve difficulty; it may require sacrifice. But when the going gets rough we do not turn on our country. We do not divorce our coun try.' For one who does we reserve the most contempt ible word in our language: traitor. A Challenge These are days when we call upon ourselves to tough en up, to relinquish some of the spoiledness and indulg ence which has made us soft. A challenger has entered the ring of this world, flexing his muscles at us, threatening a knockout. And so we talk of toughening up in educa tion, toughening up in produc tion, toughening up in arma ments. What good is it all if we don't toughen up, too, in human character? Anthropolo gist Margaret Mead has asserted that "the most serious thing that is happening" in our western culture today "is that people enter marriage now with the 49 W.f -3 idea that it is terminable." While divorce once was looked upon as a most serious measure, to be considered only in the greatest emer gency, it has now become ac cepted by many couples as an instrument of family pol icy. Russia knows full well what national weakness this en genders. In the 1920s the So viet had nothing but scorn for the sanctity of marriage. Permanent marriage was a bourgeois notion. Communists touted free love instead. Mar riage was simply a matter of registration divorce a rubber stamp routine and the family was an archaic convention to be supplanted by the com munal custody of children. They Changed Ideas Russia has changed. Today free love is heresy in the So viet. Divorce is difficult. In addition to legal obstacles there are ideological ones; a divorce is enough to wreck a Russian's chances for ad vancement in the Communist Party. Public reprimands abound in the .Soviet press. A leading athlete was chided by Soviet Sport, "Just because you are a champion in sport does not mean that you should desert a faithful wife." This is Russian realism in a new sphere. Russia has learned, through its free love adventure, that the real strength of a nation is in its families. It is trying to catch up to us-and overtake us-in this, too. We hve never abandoned, as Russia did, our belief in marriage and the family. But we have allowed it to sag. There is a new frontier for the free world in rebuilding marriage-both for individual happiness and for national well-being. Good homes, not broken homes, are the bed I rock of a pation's strength and joy. TOMORROW - FIRST AID FOR FAMILY LIFE (Distributed by The Register and Tribune Syndicate) Debundscha, at the foot of the Cameron Mountains in Nigeria, is considered one of the wettest spots on earth with an average annual rain fall of 375 inches. 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No matter how long it has been, it needn't be much longer, because the big Elks Circus brings you all this and more at Hedrick Junior High on Monday, March 23 in two big shows 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Get there early; get a good seat, a bag of popcorn, some cotton candy snd settle back to enjoy two full hours of the greatest fun in the land. Entertainment unlimited at Low Low Prices. MOBMY, -ftARGH 28 Afternoon 4 p.m. Evening 8 p.m. See The ADAMS CHIMPANZEES. No one can be sure what they will do next including Adams. See The ESCA LANTIE TROUPE do acrobatics on aerial bars that you have to see to believe. See the CLOWNS as they provide side shaking laughter. See UNCLE HEAVY'S TRAINED PIGS, the act they thought impossible to present. See over twenty Stellar Acts as the sawdust world goes all out at each performance. HURRY, HURRY, HURRY to Hedrick Junior High as seats are going to first comers. More than two hours of circus FUN at the Ken Jensen ELKS CIRCUS. See The Ken Jensen ELKS CIRCUS at 1KIMW Eiffi MIL i Sonita and Tonya, performing elephants with the Ken Jensen Elks Circus enjoy a breather before their appear ances here at A. H. Hedrick Jr. Hi Gym on Mon., March 28. Sonita and Tonya will appear at both the matinee at 4:00 and the evening show at 8:00 as will more than twenty other famous circus acts. Each performance erf the Elks Circus runs two hours and a one-price-only policy will : prevail with no reserved seats sold. Adult tickets are priced at $1.50; students $1.00; and children, 50c; doors at each show will open one hour early to permit early arrivals a choice of seats. ADMISSION PRICES Adults Students $1.50 $1.00 Children 50
