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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. IS, 1951 (Monday)
Two men walked into the
city police station here last
night and asked for a piace to
sleep; police gave them one
all right - the two men were
wanted for car theft.
, More than 100 livestock
raisers attended the annual
meeting of the Jackson Coun
ty Stockmen's association in
Central Point.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1941 (Wednesday)
Estimated income Irom ag
riculture in Jackson county
last year was $9,300,000, an
increase of $1,252,000 over
the previous year.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Regis,
tration of aliens recently com.
Dieted shows '4,471,871. Lead.
ing cities of the land for years
boasting they naa -more iibi
ians than Rome' can now start
firing the Chamber of Com
merce secretaries."
30 YEARS AGO '
Jan. 15, 1931 (Thursday)
Bids were opened for im
provement of the Crater Lake
highway between Eagle Point
and Trail yesterday and con
struction will start soon.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1921 (Saturday)
Rumor that oil has been
struck near Klamath Falls
turns out to be nothing more
than a rumor.
Ben Peart of Central Point
purchased the first hunting
and fishing license in Jackson
county this year.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1911 (Sunday)
The Medford school board
Saturday awarded the con
tracts for construction of the
Queen Anno and Jackson
blvd, elementary schools to
Alfred Ivoy, a local contrac
tor. The estimated cost of the
two schools is $33,000 each
and they are scheduled for
completion by Aug. 15.
Mcdford's famous exhibit
building wMl be purchased by
a syndicate of local business
men and turned over to the
Medford Commercial club.
What's Your I Q.7
Nina of Ian cornier it suosrlori
livtn or tight It oxcslUnt) five 01
lit It good.
1. During the War of 1812,
who was President of the
United States?
2. In which hour after his
crucifixion did Jesus die?
3. Who Is the present Secre
tary of the Army?
4. How many one inch pipes
are required to c o n v y as
much water as a four inch
pipe?
5. Which was the last Stale
admitted In (he Union, prior
to Alaska and Ilnwail?
6. What letter is missing
from this scrambled word be
ginning with P: Pmlrl?
7. Are British and U. S. gal
lons the same? 1
8. Docs the United Stales
derive a large portion of Its
regulatory power through In
terstate or Intrastate com
merce? 0. Who was Ilia champion
of American League batters
in 1955?
10, III what year did Nation
alist China's government flee
to Formosa?
Answerii 1. James Madison.
2. Sixth. 3. Wilbur M. Bruck
r, 4. 18 (iquara of diamttor).
5. Ariiona. 6. E (pormll). 7.
No. (British -equels 1.20094
U.S.) S. Interstate. 9,jXalin.
(.340) 10. 1849.
Legislative
The Oregon Constitution, in setting forth the
pay to be received by members of the legislature,
also allows them 10 cents per mile en route to
and from the legislature (one time only) on the
most usual route, "and no other personal ex
penses." How, in view of this, can the legislature vote,
as it did last week, to allow members up to $75
per month for expenses while in session, and
up to $150 per month between sessions?
Ex-Gov. Charles A. Sprague, in his Oregon
Statesman column, says:
"How these legislators expect such a resolu
tion to square with the constitution they had just
sworn to uphold is beyond me."
TTHE crux of the matter is that the Constitution
prohibits payments for "personal" expenses,
while the resolution passed last week provides
for "legislative" expenses.
Is there a real difference? Is the resolution
just juggling with semantics?
We won't know until there is an authoritative
ruling on the matter either by the Secretary of
btate, or, if he disallows
by the Supreme (Jourt.
THE question is doubly touchy because of the
faff triaf incf 1af. Mnvpmhpr fho npnnlp vntpci
down an increase in legislators' pay. And one
could argue, as some members did, that this,
coupled with the express constitutional ban on
personal expense payments, puts this resolution
beyond the pale of, if
sponsibility and moral
We cannot agree, however.
We do not believe
would really expect legislators to spend their
own money on expenses which are, in fact, leg
islative expenses, if given a chance to decide
(which they have not had).
Such expenses include things like telephone
and telegraph charges,
expenses, postage, office
reference materials, stenographic assistance, and
so on none of which would be incurred if the
individual were not working for the benefit of
the state.
IT WOULD appear that there is a substantial
difference between these legislative expenses,
and personal expenses, such as meals, lodging,
incidentals, and others. '
And we therefore believe that the legislature
is well within its rights,
m drawing such a line,
for legislative expenses.
There are safeguards, also. The expenses
must be itemized and certified, and must be ap
proved by the presiding
which the legislator is a
Why $75 when in session and $150 when not
in session ? The members have a number of serv
ices and supplies available during the session
secretaries, stationery, limited postage, reference
materials, and so on which are not available
between sessions.
The amounts involved
certainly they should do a great deal'to ease the
considerable financial burden which serving in
the legislature has come
AN INCREASE in pay for legislators undoubt-
edly will come up again for a vote of the
people.
But in the interim, we feel that the payment
of legitimate and necessary legislative expenses
will broaden a bit the number of good people
who are of legislative caliber, and perhaps make
it possible for experienced men to seek to return
to the job.
The move is of benefit to the state, and Bhould
not be begrudged. K A.
23rd Amendment
We urge the Oregon
23rd amendment.
Before some of our more volatile readers
have conniptions, we hasten to explain that it
isn't THAT 23rd amendment we have in mind
it is a proposal which
or being adopted.
(One proposed "23rd" would end the income
tax and cut down the federal government by
about 70 per cent; the other would permit voters
of the District of Columbia to cast ballots for
President and Vice President. The second is the
subject today.)
Governor Hatfield supports the ratification uf
this amendment, and sain so, with good effect,
in his message to the legislature. '
HE said:
"Another mutter of constitutional concern Is that
of prompt approval of the 23rd Amendment to tha
U. S, Constitution. In the November election Ore
gonlani supported Die Idea that people within our
borderi should not be disfranchised in presidential
elections because they could not meet the residence
requirements. It Is only fitting that In this same spirit
the franchise should be extended to residents of tha
District of Columbia." ,
Oregon is one of 41 of the 50 states where
legislatures meet this year, and as soon as 84 of
them ratify the Amendment, it will become
effective".
One hopes this will
matter of democratic ritrhts and justice to the !
nn nnn ,
(iOO.OOO or so citizens
BavtOno say about who
Expenses .
such expense vouchers.
not legality, at least re
obligation.
the people of the state
office space rental, office
supplies, stationery and
both legal and moral,
and undertaking to pay
: i
officer o the house of
member.
are not substantial, but
to be.
.
legislature to ratify the
has a far greater chance
been soon simplv as a
i ,i i a 1
of the capital nio now
will be President. E. A.
Dennis the Menace
'HOW FIRM CAN I GET
SCTUALLy BELTING HIM
Matter of Fact v
CONCESSIONAL
AUGURIES
Washington - This week's
big event in Congress was
simple enough. Sen. Mike
Mansfield 01
Montana sua
cessfully pass
ed his first
test as Majori
ty Leader,
when the Sen
ate sent the
whole p r o b-
lem of changes
in the Senate
Alsop rules back to
the Rules Committee.
For the student of Congress,
the fight over the rules was
an interesting affair. To begin
with, the apple of discord was
hurled by Vice President
Nion. In order to open the
way for a rules fight. Nixon
used his power as presiding
officer to condemn as "uncon-
stilutional" the Senate's pre
vious vote that its existing
rules survived from session to
session.
Having placed the Senate
under the unaccustomed guid
ance of Robert's "Rules of Or-
der" and Thomas Jefferson's
"Manual," tha Vice President
vanished from tha scene. Sen
ate Minority Leader Everett
Dirksen then hastened to ex
tract a Republican advantage
from the situation that Nixon
had created. He smoothly of
fered Sen. Richard Russell of
Georgia conservative Republi
can help in the Southern fight
against any radical change in
the Senate rules which Nixon
had declared void.
SEN. Joseph Clark of Penn
sylvania and the other
Democratie liberals at once
plunged into the fray, with
their customary disregard for
practical consequences. ' This
time, however, the liberal
banners carried a compromis
ing slogan. Instead of a rules
change absolutely outlawing
filibusters, the liberals were
now seeking merely to reduce
the Senate majority needed
to condemn a filibuster from
two-thirds to three -fifths of
the whole.
This compromise command
ed a rather solid majority of
the Senate, as Senator Mans
field soon discovered. To boss
this majority, Senator Russell
and his Southerners- were
therefore ready to talk until
kingdom come, preventing the
inauguration if need be. But
among the Senators ready to
back the compromise, Mans
field also discovered just
enough who were equally
willing to refer the whole
matter to the Rules Commit
tee. This was what the Senate
voted to do on Wednesday, by
a majority of 90 to 48. As
anyone who studies the roll
call can see, the final effect of
the wordy struggle was to re
create, at least for the time
being, the old Republican conservative-Southern
coalition
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
mWO SCOTCHMEN, sauntering along a beach at low tide,
A spotted an oyster simultaneously, Both grabbed for It
and claimed It, and the dispute became so hot they decided .
to leave the decision to a
third man on the beach,
tie suggested mat eacn
Claimant ion nil story,
and while thoy were or
ating, he opened the shell,
extracted the oyiter,
with a grunt of satisfac
tion, then handed each of
them a shell.
"The Court," he de
clared, "awards you each
a shell. The oyster will
cover the costs."
o
It took a snail exactly ,VT
four years to cive a romt.
Juntas it reached the ban a tree
11 hy ".,can.t "x ,nd"'"'
You see,
been where I yms six monms ago
u t0 mor? fast,-
em safi ctsAuour
WITHOUT
ONE ?. -
Joseph Alsop
The liberal effort to exploit
the situation produced by
Nixon in fact assisted the wily
Dirksen more than anyone
else.
flHIS episode is interesting,
precisely because one has
heard the same story so often
before. The liberal fondness
for gestures and carelessness
of solid results: the Republi
can maneuvers to promote an
alliance with the Southerners
against the liberals; the South
erners willingness to be ex
plotted, even if the original
troublemaker was a Republi
can himself, as in the present
case-all this is very familiar.
The legislative program of
President-elect Kennedy, at
least as announced to date, is
only too familiar. It contains
no item which has not passed
the Senate, at least, in one
form or another.
Equally familiar,' at any
rate to those who have seen
previous changes of adminis
tration, are tha grumbles now
being heard in so many Con
gressional quarters. This great
man in tha House has a neph
ew who'has served long and
well in an Important regula
tory commission; and now the
nephew has been passed over
for the chairmanship in favor
of a rank outsider. That lead
ing Senator has a friend and
protege whom Secretary of
Defense-designate Robert Mc
Namara obstinately refuses
to name to an Assistant Sec
retaryship. And so it goes.
THE grumbles only mean
vthat President-elect Ken
nedy's Congressional liaison is
not yet in good working order.
The re-emergence of the Re
publican conservative South
ern coalition only means that
Kennedy is going to have to
make a special effort to se
cure Southern support. But
the quality of a ten-times-told
tale which tinctures the whole
Congressional situation is gen
uinely ominous.
The point is that the pres
ent Congressional atmosphere
of business-as-usual, slogan-as-usual,
squabblcs-as-usual, and
grumbles-as-usual, is by no
means an atmosphere that
lends itself to bold, emergency
action. Yet the gold drain, the
acute political-military crises
in Laos and the Congo, the
defense position, the general
drift of world events, all com
bine to call for bold and prob
ably painful action.
Thus Kennedy's primary
problem, from the very mo
ment that he takes the oath,
will be to create a climate of
action. He can only do so, be
yond doubt, by bringing the
country up short with a sharp
warning of the exceptionally
grave national situation, which
most people have hardly no
deed. If the country changes,
Congress will also change,
(c) 1981 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Llppmann
THE FRENCH DECISION
The referendum on Algeria
Is, it seems to me, more deci
sive than the gross figures
seem to show,
Thus, It is true
that if we
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" vote in France
Llppmann Itself and only
d per cent in Algeria.
But these figures do not
tell correctly the story of
what happened.
wnat was the issue on
wnicn ail these votes were
cast? It was whether Gen. de
Gaulle should have a man
date to make an Algerian set
tlement on the basis, if nec
essary, of independence for
Algeria. On this Issue France
Itself voted overwhelmingly
to give de Gaulle a mandate
to make an Algerian peace
Only about 18 per cent of
the registered voters sought
to deny him the mandate. But
who were they? They were
the Rightists who want to re
tain Algeria as a part' of
France and they were the
Communists, who while they
do not care about Algeria,
are opposed for other reasons
to de Gaulle.
Most of the non-voters
moreover, are to be counted
as silent assenters to de
Gaulle's policies, for in France
the politically passive are, for
the most part, willing to go
along with his leadership,
-
WE MAY conclude that
France itself, metropolitan
France, has now said decisive
ly that it wants peace, that
it does not support any long
er the resistance of the Euro
peans in Algeria, and that,
while it hopes for an associa
tion with Algeria, it is pre
pared to accept an independ
ent Algeria. This is a decisive
result.
The voting -In Algeria it
self was much less significant.
The Europeans voted no, as
of course they would. The
Moslems abstained in the
cities, following the instruc
tions of the rebel leaders, and
in the country they voted
when the French Army took
them to the polls.
One cannot take these votes
seriously. What the voting
does show is that the Euro
peans are a small minority,
no' longer supported politi
cally by their compatriots In
France, and that the Moslems
will follow the leaders of the
rebellion.
THE practical conclusions to
. be drawn from all this are,
It seems to me, these. First,
an Algerian peace will have
to be negotiated with the Al
gerians who have waged the
war. It cannot be negotiated
with anyone else.
Second, the European mi
nority, which is to lose its
political privileges, will now
be in jeopardy of losing every
thing under the pressure of
the huge Moslem majority. In
withdrawing their support of
the European settlers, the peo
ple of metropolitan France
have assumed the- obligation
of protecting the lives of the
settlers and of indemnifying
them for the possible loss of
their property. This is, I un
derstand, thoroughly under
stood at the highest levels
in France, and may carry with
it an offer to repatriate to
metropolitan France those
who wish to leave a Moslem
Algeria.
By this referendum Gen. de
Gaulle has won a vote of con
fidence in himself, he has won
a mandate to proceed to the
surgical operation w h i e h
Some European Socks Need Pulling Up
By ERIC SEVAREID I both the blessings and thelof Marxists who drove thelin Briiish lnH,,irv
Department stores use the
first days of the new year for
grab-bag sales to move out-vs0mf-;rmm
siies, odd-lots
misfits and
faulty goods,
there is noth
ing In our con
tract that says
we can't do
the same. The
lining of our
briefcase i s
filled, not only
with left-over
Yrl4
coins from a dozen countries
but with unsold thoughts,
half-thoughts, facts, figures,
prejudices and crotchets, and
we may as well toss part of
the litter on the counter for
any undiscriminating shop
pers still on their fect.
The muscular strength of
American kids is far below
that of British kids. To the
"Quiet American" and the
'Ugly American is now add
ed the "Soft American." This
is true, was discovered, several
years ago, is due to the car's
replacing legs and bicycles,
and European kids will go the
same way when car-crazy
Europe has had the things
long cnougl5i The chief dis
tinction between West Europe
and America is that Europe is
about 10 years behind iur.in
peace almost certainly re
quires, and he has received
notice that the people of
France want to finish with
the Algerian business. No one
who looks at this vote can
imagine the French people
supporting an Algerian civil
war for years to come.
THERE can be no doubt
that American opinion will
be strongly in favor of Gen.
de Gaulle, and whatever in
fluence we have in North
Africa, in the United Nations,
in other world capitals, is sure
to be exerted to help him.
He must succeed. For there
is no tolerable alternative.
Were he to fail, the Algerian
war would become terrible in
its desperation, and almost
certainly it would become, at
least by proxy, an internation
al war. In that event France
would be sucked out of any
genuine alliance with the
West and the whole structure
of the Western system would
be shaken.
If we are entering a period
of quiet diplomacy, we should
make.it quite clear that a con
vulsion in Western Europe
and in the Western Mediter
ranean would make the inter
national situation unmanage
able. Therefore, those who
want to relax the tensions will
find it important to keep them
relaxed in North Africa.
Cbpyright 1961, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington, President
Eisenhower sends to the con
gress his farewell State of the
Union message. It is a routine
message that he is required
by law to deliver. He sends it
in manuscript, and it is read
to the members of both hous
es. .',, -
N IT, be reviews the prob-
lems of the past eight
years. Because his term will
expire next Friday, he makes
few direct recommendations
for the future.
HE THINKS (and says in
careful language) that
in the past eight years we
haven't done too badly, every
thing considered. He recog
nizes that grave problems re
main tq be faced - and solved
wisely. He closes with this
statement!
'A new President will
shortly lay before the congress
proposals for shaping the fu
ture of a great land. To him,
every citizen, whatever his
political beliefs, prayerfully
extends best wishes for good
health and for wisdom and
success in coping with the
problems that confront our
nation.
IT IS A routine message. But,
considering the circum
stances in which it is deliver
ed, it is an interesting mes
sage. It gives an accurate pic
ture of this VERY GREAT
PRESIDENT.
The things that make Ike
greatest are the things that
made Washington and Lincoln
great. People - not only in
America, but all over the
world - instinctively HAVE
CONFIDENCE in him, as they
had in, Washington and Lin
coln. HARRY Holt, the indefatiga
ble Creswell, Oregon,
farmer who is devoting the
important middle years of his
life (he is 59) to a shining
cause, arrives in Portland
with 107 Korean children -orphans
of the Korean war -for
whom he .will find foster
parent's in this land of the
free - and, let us add grate
fully - this LAND OF OP-
curses of modern living
American children watch
far too much television. They
do - in fact, exactly as much
as British children. Seventy-
five per cent of British homes
are equipped with TV, 65 per
cent with bathtubs. There
are some 50 educational TV
stations in America, none in
Britain.
America is a materialistic
sqciely. Well, We possess the
material, but from my own
travel experience I would put
the new Africans first and
the French second in terms
of the materialistic spirit.
-Europeans find American
boasting our most insuffer
able fault. They have a point,
but braggadocio is a fault
more easily curable than the
average Briton's deep seated
conviction that God is British,
the average Frenchman's in
difference to the rest of the
world and the leftover germs
of the master-race syndrome
that sleep In many German
breasts.
Americans get too hysteri
cal about the Marxists in their
miditj Americans do, consid
ering that there are so few.
But I notice that it is the hard
core of Marxists who now
threaten to split Belgium in
two, that it was the hard core
POTIUCK.
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
If you were one of the lucky
few who saw a news staff
member walking slowly down
the middle of Fir street late
one evening last week, care
fully rolling up a ball of knit
ting yarn, this is to inform
you that he was cold stone
sober.
His wife had dropped him
at the office for a moment,
drove to a store to buy a loaf
of bread, and en route acci
dentally and unknowingly
dropped a ball of yarn out the
car door. It unrolled, and she
drove around with about 150
feet of yarn trailing in the
breeze behind the car.
When she stopped for her
husband, he discovered the
yarn, traced it to its end a
half-block away, and carefully
rolled it up for her, walking
as he rolled.
The yarn was undamaged,
we're happy to report, and
now is part of a young lady's
sweater. One of the few for
mal sweaters in town, we'll
wager, which can boast of hav
ing been dragged around the
streets of Medford.
One of the better defini
tions of an old-timer is a
person who can remember
when he used to wish that
' someday his gross income
would be as large as his
grocery bill actually is to
day, "
A home nursing class at a
local high school was dis
cussing the care of infants the
other day, and the teacher
asked the class to define colic
in a baby.
"Gosh," said one member,
"I didn't think they even had
enough hair for a cowlick at
that age."
Have you noticed the rose
bushes on sale at some
stores? can spring be far
away?
Not long ago we were hon
ored (?) by being placed on
the mailing list of the new
tourist promotion department
of the State of Alaska.
We are sorry to have to re
port, as a result, that the Alas
kan flacks are just as bad as
some others. Oh, some of the
stuff is fine, all right, telling
about dog races, glaciers, and
other attractions of the 49th
(and biggest) state.
But the most recent release
smacked of the calculated
tales coming from the vicinity
of Loch Ness, Scotland, about
sea monsters, and out of south
east Asia, about Abominable
Snowmen, and so on.
In the interests of wide (and
PORTUNITY.
He has been at the job for
nearly a decade, and this 107
brings to 2,171 the number of
Korean waifs he has brought
to the United States and found
homes for.
WHAT will be their future?
Here is the communist
version of it, as promulgated
by Red North Korea's Pyong
yang radio:
"They are to be sold to
plantation owners and capi
talists as CHILD SLAVES -where
they will undergo all
sorts of humiliation and mis
treatment!"
WHAT shall we do 'about
things like that?
Just CONSIDER THE
SOURCE, I reckon,
That's what the Chinese
communists would do with
American orphan children if
the situation was reversed and
the communist government
was taking them over there.
They must be judging us by
WHAT THEY WOULD DO in
similar circumstances.
British Labor party down the
official policy line of neutral
ism.
Americans, devoid of a na
live cunure, ininK iney can
buy other people's culture
with money. Maybe this is
why European art dealers
cry on their way to the bank,
although the highest private
prices paid for paintings in
recent history were paid by
an English collector. I also
notice that the number of
Americans who visit the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art in
New York is far higher than
the number of Europeans of
all nationalities who visit the
Louvre, that more people
enter Detroit's Art Museum
than enter the famous Brit
ish Museum, and I incline to
doubt that all the 35 million
music lovers who regularly
listen to America's symphony
orchestras - more than half
the world's total - own oil
wells in Texas.
American education Is slop
py and superficial and too
concerned with technical
studies, A sickening amount
of it is pablum Indeed, but I
notice British leaders now get
ting panicky about their own
pallry efforts at scientific edu
cation; I notice that 30 to 40
per cent of the new techniques
wide-eyed) coverage for our
readers, however, we are
printing herewith excerpts)
from the release:
"There's a ... a thing! . . .
loose in Alaska.
"It's more than 150 feet
long. And it's all different
colors. And its eyes light up at
me very signt of people. And
it moves, Oh Lordy, how it
moves.
"What is it?
"It's an Ice Worml
"Now don't scoff . . . The
Ice Worm does exist. A couple
of Cordova, Alaska's bravest
glaciologists recently discov
ered the monster, imbedded
deep in a glacier in the hills
about 500 yards behind ths
city. A worm specialist flown
from an unidentified univers
ity estimates the beast has lain
dormant there for 6,000,000
years.
"But, advises the same spe
cialist, the abominable lea
Worm (who really is a lovable
and friendly thing, in spite of
his size and appearance) is
awakening. And he will come
fully awake on Feb. 11 and
12, just in time to appear at
the parade of Cordova's First
Annual Ice Worm Festival.
"Immediately after the fes
tival the creature will return
to hibernation for 363 days,
thereafter making a yearly ap
pearance at the festivities
named in his honor ..."
Well, it's hard to argue with
an honest public relations
man carried away by his
work. But he doesn't have to
go around scaring little chil
dren. Incidentally, about that 363
day hibernation, what hap
pens on Leap Years?
Today is World Religion
Day, sponsored by the Na
tional Spiritual Assembly
of the Baha'is of the U.S. It
is also the beginning of
Church and Economic Life
Week, National Jaycea
Week, National Civil Serv
ice Week, Printing Educa
tion Week, International
Printing Week, and Nation
al YMCA Week. National
Franklin Thrift Observance
starts Tuesday, and Thurs
day is Robert E. Lee's Birth
day. Quite a week. What
with two weeks devoted to
printing, both at the same
lime, do you suppose we'll
get through it without a
typographical error? Heh,
heh.
Somebody dropped a clip
ping on our desk, with tha
following sentence under
lined: - "Jackson county welfare
work crews are building two
shelters for skaters as they
change their skates."
We hope those workmen
are careful.
Do you suppose that Con
gressman Noah Mason of
Illinois and Congressman
Henry Dixon of Utah are
planning to co-sponsor a bill
this year-the Mason-Dixon
bill? Or, perhaps, a telegraph-control
bill will be in
troduced, naturally enough
by Sen. Wayne Morse and
Congressman Merwin Cead
of Iowa?
A local legal firm held an
open house at its new offices
last week. They sent out about
500 invitations, but from tha
looks of tilings, about twice
that many people must hava
showed up.
Anyway, carried away by
the refreshments, and tha
many stylish women in at
tendance, one observer com
mented, "Styles are certainly
following fluid lines here to
day." in British industry are bor
rowed , from American indusi
try; I noticed, in a ship at
Southampton, that more than
half the families emigrating
to Australia and Canada were
doing so chiefly because of a
sick certainty that their chil
dren had no chance of ever
getting into a British univer
sity; I notice British, French
and German educators won
dering if it is, after all. just
or even intelligent for the
slate to determine a child's
life-long destiny by a paper
examination at the tender aaa
of 11 or 12; I notice that in
Italy, home of the Rcnais
sance. one citizen out of eight
over the age of six can neither
read nor write.
.
How we Americans waste
our educational resourcesi
How Europeans strangle their
human resources in tha
cradle!
To tOSS one more rnnn.nl
on this litter heap let me say
....... u.-neve America and
Europe, fully develonr-f" InH
working together, could slr rd
off the Communist world n
ever; respect. But a fcarait
numuer of socks need pulling
up first, and by no means are
all of them made in America.
(Distributed 1961. by The
Hill Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved) I