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History from, the files of The
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and 50 yean ago,
10 YEARS AGO ', 1.,.',
April 19, 1951 (Thursday);,
Gold ruth fever hft the Cen
tral Polnt-Tolo irea-of Jack
ion county thli week,, alter
leveral good-sized nugget of
metal were dticovered la'.
new well near the Tolo over
pass. The new city water pipe
line was cut into, the old rin
take at Big Butte springs to
day and water was atfaln flow
ing normally.
-30 YEARS AGO . '..,',,.,
April 19, 1941 Saturday)
The Medford High school
band won top rank in its
class in state contest at
From Arthur Perry' "Y
if Tiudlt rev column: -jwery
t ling U growing like weed,
Knt nnt a wall as a weed
V.0 aiiaU la up as high u
: the yellow mustard in vacant
lots and rural lieiai. ,
10 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1931 (Sunday)
Miss Helen Bullls has been
named head of the Medford
committee of the Jackson
County Health association.
The Bagley Canning com
pany of Ashland plans to
pack Rogue valley tomatoes
t year.
49 YIARS AGO
AptU 19. 1911 (Tuesday)
The Medford Chamber of
Commerce with a ' current
membership of 385, is seek
ing to up that figure to 450.
Ball has been set at 12.900
each for two men accused of
the attempted robbery, of
Gold Hill bank.
SO YEARS AGO
.April II, 1111 (Wednesday)
City Attorney Porter J. Neff
has ruled that Medford resi
dents need not pay rent on
electric meter boxes that are
installed by the Rogue River
Electric company,
Gov. Oswald West Is visit
ing Medford on a southern
Oregon Inspection trip.
Whal't Your I.Q.7
Nina ran correct Is superior;
Sevan or eight Is excellent; (We or
ix h seed.
1. The whorls and ridges on
human fingers do, of do not,
change with age?
2. In liquid -measure how
many gills are m a pint?
3. Seven letters In the al
phabet are used in Roman
Numerals; how many can you
name?
4. A portion of Laos bor
ders on China; true or false?
5. Name the Federal agency
which prints U.S. currency.'
6. Which Jewish organiza
tion has the Initials Y.M.H.A.?
7. If you suffered from
chrematophobia, would you
fear wealth, burning or being
burled alive? ,
8. How many children con
stitute a pair of twins?
9. At a wedding, are the
bride's relatives seated on the
left, or right side of the
church?
10. Usually, in Homer and
In later writers, ambrosia , is
the food of the gods; what is
the drink of the gods?
1. Do not. 2. 4 gills. 3.
C,D.I,L,M.V.X. 4. True. 5. Bu
reau of Engraving and Print
ing. 9. Young Men's Hebrew
Association. 7. Wealth. 9.
Twp, 9. Left. 10. HecUr. J
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19. 1961
Seashore vs. Shorelands
1 The Oregon Dunes National Seashore pro
posal, first made by the late Sen. Richard Neu
berger, and more recently by his widow, the
present junior senator from Oregon, would, if
followed, be a major boon to the state of Oregon,
in many different ways. :. ,
We have supported it from its inception, and
Congressman Durno's opposition to it was one
of the reasons we did not support him for election
last fall. -..'. '.;;.
His thinking has changed somewhat regard
ing the Dunes area, and last week he introduced
his own bill for development and protection of
the, Oregon Dunes area, as "Shorelands." , '
1X7E HAVE not commented on it before 'this
" because we did not know exactly what he
proposed, but we now have a copy of the bill. 5
Congressman , Durno's bill has some merit.
There is a valid question whether the Dunes area
is in quite the same class as the great national
parks such as Crater, Yosemite, Yellowstone and
Olympic. : ". -v
At Cape Hatteras, where the only existing
National Seashore is located, the regulations and
philosophy governing it are somewhat different,
both in approach and in application, from those
of the scenic parks. .
There is more emphasis on active recreation,
for one thing, and less on scenic values. , '
.'.:.
J)R. DURNO'S bill is reminiscent; of earlier pro
posals that some agency of government be
made responsible for recreation at a level below
that of the great scenic parks, yand above that of
the Forest Service camps. ,
(This is an area now being explored by the
Outdoor Recreational Resources Review commit
tee, and in our view merits serious consideration.)
The Dunes, beautiful and spectacular as they
are, still are of a different type of beauty than
Crater lake, or than the mid-Cascades between
Diamond Peak and Mt.
ously believe merits National Tark status. :
And popular usage of the Dunes would be
different from that in a wilderness type park. ;
, : ,
DUT at that point, we'll have to part company
" with Congressman Durno's proposal. We ob
ject to it, and for three
1. A Shorelands area
ausnices simolv would not
Seashore under the National Park Seryice would.
The latter would ''put it pn the map"; the former
wouldn't.
2.- The Durno hill nrovirlps that. "In earrv-
ing out this act,' the Secretary of Agriculture
shall recognize that the enjoyment by the public
and conservation of the recreation ana scenic
values are major purposes of the Shorelands,
EXCEPT that he, shall place no unnecessary re
strictions on the MULTIPLE purposes to which
lands within the, Shorelands may be put." (Em
phasis ours.) 1 . v-VH ' ,
yHAT exception cuts the heart out of the Shore-
lands proposal, and would permit it to be
administered virtually the same as any other
segment of national forest. .
Our third objection is related to the second.
8. The Forest Service is devoted to the prin
ciple of "multiple use";
an excellent philosophy.
very nature, must be restricted to its primary
uses recreation primarily, with ecological, con
servation, and preservations close behind.
, ' By its very nature, the forest service has be
come oriented to consumptive use of forest re
sourced logging, grazing, and so on. And con
sumptive use cannot be justified in such an area.
Unless the forest service begins to show evi
dence of a greater appreciation of non-consumptive
use for areas primarily suited for them; un
less it demonstrates a greater belief in the im
portance of preservation and recreational values,
we cannot believe it would be the proper agency
to administer such an area.
17E HAVE other Jesser objections to the con
f gressman's proposal. The area is somewhat
smaller than the Neuberger plan calls for, and is
distributed differently (although it includes some
dunes not included in the other) ; and it excludes
the state parks, which should be included if the
whole area is to be integrated and effectively and
efficiently managed.
But the objections listed are the main ones.
; So we continue to believe that the Oregon
Dunes National Seashore would be one. of the
state's major assets and attractions.
On an economic basis alone, it would do more
for the state's well-being than if the entire area
were devoted to forest products industries.
Tourists are a "crop" renewable annully;
lumber is a crop renewable in 60 to 100 years.
The Seashore plan merits the strong support
of all Oregonians who hope for both beauty and
prosperity in the state's future. E.A.
Academy Award?
. Some days we feel very, very old.
Monday night was such an occasion, as we
watched televised portions of the Academy
Awards ceremonies in Hollywood.
We reacted as follows : 1
They seemed vulgar, unimaginative, cornv.
interminable; the choices were atrocious and
made with very little regard to real excellence,
and the entire performance revealed shockingly
not what is right about Hollywood, but what is
wrong. ' ..' .. ,. t , '
Movies may be "better than ever." We some
times think so. But this tasteless performance
was the best argument we've seen to the con
trary. KA, - -
Jefferson, which we seri
principal reasons :
under Forest Service
be of national note. A
of its resources. This is
But a Seashore, by its
Dennis the Menace
'He used to have a Lime bell but AfoM took it out
'CAUSE I SAID 'HEUO' EVERY TIMS We RINSED IT.
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Everybody's Problem '
To the Editor: Regarding
the proposed wrecking yard
Just out of Talent:
Mrs. Flynn and her unhap
py neighbors Indeed have our
sympathy and understanding.
How well we know that sink
ing feeling of disbelief that
comes .when you hear that
your own property is about
to be shoved out of its value
bracket and plunked into the
category of undesirables
through no fault of your own.
We, too, have pruned and
preened, painted and schemed,
to make our homes attractive
and livable. And we, too, have
staring at us an ominous cloud
that won't contaminate our
landscape as much as it will
the air we breathe. Namely,
Medco's private log road.
Most of us honestly didn't
give a lot of thought to some
one else's problems. Sort of
felt as long as it didn't affect
us, there was not much point
In fretting. But in seeking a
solution to our own problem
of the log road, the inadequa
cy of protection of . all un
zoned Jackson county proper
ty has hit home. ;
A dusty log road here,
wrecking yard there. Some
clay perhaps a glue factory
over, that-a-way, sf. chemical
plant this-a-way. And poor
dreaming Mr, What-hls-name
will come back from oblivion
and find HIS home surround
ed by, a fish cannery, a bongo
colony and a munitions plant.
Of course, he'll have that old
sinking' feeling and ' it will'
THEN dawn on him that the
arrangement of our beautiful
little valley really WAS ev
erybody's problem.
Jackson County
. Home Owners
Protective Association
Route 1, Box 285
Eagle Point, Ore.
Pool Protection
To the Editor: If my mem
ory serves me correctly, there
is a City Ordinance which
compels residents to protect
all fish ponds or pools In their
yards. This could save the
life of a small child and we
think it a very good law.
The City of Medford has
an open pool In its park on
West Main street with only a
cement guard around it. Dur
ing the summer many people
like to sit on the benches
there and talk with their
friends. Last summer two of
these, men who are blind,
accidently stepped into this
wading pool. They should be
entitled to as much consider
ation and protection as our
children.
Summer Is coming fast so
how about putting a high rail
around this pool to prevent
this . happening again? (The
waders could duck under).
Madge Frederick
. 124 King St., ,
' Medford.
Duck (Not Fish) Story
To the Editor: Presence of
mind is the soul of manly
deeds. Believe me, presence of
mind during the early SO's
came to me as a necessity.
Thus I once chanced to find
on a hunting trip an inland
lake where several dozen wild
ducks were swimming so far
apart that ' I could scarcely
hope to kill more than one
with a single shot. I hnd only
one shot left. I wanted to got
them all because I expected
quite a number of friends for
dinner. . . . ; .
I remembered a small piece
of bacon, the only thing in
my hunting bag left over
from all the provisions I had
taken with me. I fastened it
to a long lensh which I in
creased In length many times
by unraveling it. Then I hid
myself In the bulrushes at the
shore, threw out my bacon
for bait and was very pleased
to see the nearest duck swim
for It and swallow it. ,
The rest of the ducks soon
MEDFORD MAIL
case.
there they were, sitting-like
pearls on a string. I drew
them delightedly ashore
wound the string half a dozen
times around my chest and
proceeded on my homeward
way. Their weight became. so
great that 1 almost regretted
having caught so many. The
ducks were all alive and no
sooner had ' they; recovered
from their shock' than they
started to flutter their wings
vehemently and. to lift me
with them high up Into the
air. (The ducks' achievement
almost put a man into space.)
Many a man would not have
known what to do, but I took
advantage of it and steered
with ' the tails of my coat
through the air. When I ar
rived above my house, and all
depended on my descending
without Irijury, I crushed the
head of one duck after , an
other and thus sank gradually
and gently straight through
the chimney of my house, and
landed, to the surprise-of the
cook, right in the center of
the kitchen stove.' where for
tunately the fire was not yet
kindled. :i;;:
Should there be people
among you who j doubt my
veracity, I cannot help but
pity their lack of faith, ;
'- Grady Conner i' '
723 W. Jackson st.
. ' Medford.:-, ' .
Later Than You Think ' ! .
To the - Editor: This is an
open letter to our state and
national legislators:
Our Gasoline Dealers Asso
ciation has discussed the prob
lem of Gasoline price wars
many times with our state
and national legislators and
so far we have had no help.
At the present time we seem
to be in the biggest gasoline
price war I have participated
in for the eighteen years I
have been in the service sta
tion business. The present
war extends from Seattle to
San Diego.
I realize that the major oil
company monopolies want no
legislation to control their ac
tivities, but it seems they have
a tiger by the tail with their
subsidy plan. (Subsidy plan is
where the majors and the
service station operators both
absorb part of the loss on the
sale of gasoline during a price
war, which the operators can
not afford, and is usually
done at the suggestion of the
majors. This would probably
account for the 40 turn-over
of leased station operators.)
We have a case In bur area
-when our price war started
of three leased station oper
ators of different .brands In
the same locality collaborat
ing in taking the selling price
way below the anticipated
selling price by simultaneous
ly postlne curb siens and
therefore advising their com
pany representatives that they
were only meeting , competi
tion. ' They did this because
they were angry and frus
trated, realizing that it would
hurt themselves, but hoping
mat it would hurt their sup
pliers more and helD force thfe
major monopolies to start a
price clearing effort.
We will never have a solu
tion to price wars on a wide
area basis until the subsidy
plan is eliminated. This
would be extremely easy to
do by repealing the justifica
tion clause in the Robinson
Patman Act, which would
force the major monopolies to
do all of their fighting at
wholesale. This would force
them to have a realistic whole
sale, or tank wagon price on
gasoline and would benefit
all the buying public.
If our state wanted to lead
the way, all that would have
to be done is legisIate-"The
wholesale price shall be the
same to all retailers, with the
exception of freight differ
ential and quantity discounts'
nftflmrtng that j s BUlfiSi!
TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Nixon's Neglect of Neqro Vote
Campaign
- '
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (UPB A press
release from News Alliance of
New York got less attention
last week than
it deserved.
The release
was legiti
mate ballyhoo
for an article
in Ebony mag
azine, a peri
odical devoted
to the inter
ests of Amer.
ican Negroes,
The author was E. Frederick
Morrow who was described as
the first Negro-ever appoint
ed as a White House aide.
And who appointed Mor
row? Not Franklin D. Roose
velt who mined 24 carat po
litical gold from the . votes
of American Negroes. Nor
was Harry S. Truman the ap
pointing president although
Truman, like FDR, was a vol
uble political champion of the
Negro and beneficiary of his
vote. Morrow was appointed
by Dwlght D. Eisenhower.
The Republicans never chal
lenged FDR or HST on the
issue of first class jobs for
Negroes, especially in or
around the White House. It
sometimes occurred to politi
cal commentators hereabouts
to wonder why. Perhaps the
Bills Approved
By Legislature
Salem - (UPD - Measures ap
proved Tuesday:
By the Senate '
. SB178-Elevator installation
and operation.
SB324-Local budget law.
- B510-Facilities on a right
of way.,
HB1185-Raising salaries of
governor arid top state offi
cials. - -. '
HB1186-Frozen desserts.
HB1215 - Commercial ani
mal feeds.
HB12ia-School district elec
tions:
HB128L-Board of Control
scholarship program.
HB1339-Planning gifts and
grants.
HB1362-Cemetery in Clack
amas county. :.
HB1457-Astpria - M e g 1 e r
bridge ' '.' ',;'
HB147I rUiem plbyment
compensation. "
HB1476-X,etting women use
guns. . :
HB1494-Relating to water
carriers. '
HB1499 -Relating to ports
and joint contracts.
. HBI523-Effective date for
annexations.
-HB1559-Relating to vehi
cles, v v
HB1603-Rural school dis
tricts. ." . v
. HB1613 J- County mainte
nance districts.-
HB1614 - Domestic water
supply corporations.
HBI647-Farm labor crews.
HBl658-Corrimercial fisher
ies. ' v
HB1684-Nursing home ad
ministrators, i.
HB1699-Penitentiary - cor
rectional institution revolving
fund. '-.
HBI718-Food fish or shell
fish retail dealers' licenses.
HB1723-Investment of state
funds. . ,
HB1734-Dispositlon of game
fines.
HB1735-Dispositlon of com
mercial fishing law fines. -By
the House
HB1568- Requirements for
oil and gas well drilling.
HBI700-Rights of blind pe
destrians. HB1253-Frozen desserts.
HB1531, 1532-Offshore oil
exploration.
Georgia-Pacific
Trial Dates Set
Portland ' (UPD - Federal
Judge Gus Solomon Tuesday
set dates of May 16 and July
19 for trials of suits against
the Georgia-Pacific corpora
tion brought by a stockholder.
The suits were brought by
Robert S; Gaynor of New
York, who owns 70 shares of
G-P stock., The May 16 case
alleges improper granting of
stock options last year to Jack
Brandis, then a G-P vice presi
dent and now a director, and
the July 19 case alleges over
payment for purchase of Ply
wood Products company, Cor-
vallis.
Fight To End Gas
Price War Said Lost
Portland - (UPD - The presi
dent of the Oregon Gasoline
Dealers association said Tues
day the battle to end the cur
rent price war had been lost.
Virgil Rukke told dealers
that as long as there were
price signs there will be a
price war. The OGDA last
week had asked dealers to re
move the price signs.
Prices remained at 21.9 and
22.9 cents at most stations for
regular gasoline. t
later than you think for 40
per cent of us.
Roy Copping
112 East 11th ave.
Bugnna. Ors
May Have
Republicans were afraid of
offending their potential
white, conservative support
ers in the southern states.
The implication of Mor
row's article is that Nixon's
campaign attitude toward Ne
groe voters probably cost him
the presidency. Morrow was
trying to upgrade Republi
cans with Negro voters, the
release explains, and adds:
"Morrow made a futile ef
fort to convince Vice Presi
dent Nixon of the need to ac
tively campaign among Ne
groes. His advice was un
heeded and he found himself
shunted aside while traveling
with the Nixon party. Morrow
told Ebony reporters that he
tried to reach Nixon to get
him to Intervene in behalf of
Rev. Martin Luther King-to
no avail." "
King, chief spokesman for
southern Negroes, experienced
Feared and Hated Leader of
Africans Holds Key
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Jpmo Kenyatta, a bearded,
aged--African-who stands at
the center of the fear and un
rest torment
ing Kenya,
met newsmen
for the first
time in eight
years the oth
er day and
denied the
British de
scription that
he is the "Af
rican leader to
mm
Newsom
darkness and death."
, Eight years ago Kenyatta
was convicted as the leader of
the -Mau-Mau, a terrorist or
ganization with rites so de
grading they have not been
publicly described to this day.
; Before the end of the emer
gency, 93 Europeans had died
in various forms of butchery.
Also dead in the fighting
were nearly 2,500 African
civilian and military person
nel and more than 10,000 ter
rorists. V:
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
' In . Washington the other
day two government agencies
- the Weather Bureau and the
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration - con
firmed what most of us have
known for a long time ... that
tnere is little you can do about
the weather. except talk about
it.".:-.. .,. . . .-
Thus . . . after manv lona
years . and many millions of
dollars . ; . we get back to
little Tommv Jinks and his
sapient observation that "no
body knows what the wevver
finks." -
Which, perhaps, is just as
Well.- If SOMEBODY ELSE
could do something about the
weather, he d be pretty sure
to do something WE wouldn't
like.
MAJOR Gagarin, the Rus
sian cosmonaut, explained
the other day when he got
back from his trip around the
world in 89 minutes (it took
Phlneas Fogg, Jules Verne's
fanciful science fiction hero,
80 days to do-it some three
quarters of a century ago) that
in some ways it's really easier
to do your work in the state
of weightlessness that prevails
out in space, away from the
pull of gravity.
I think we can all agree
that It would at least be easier
to climb stairs. One could just
FLOAT up.
BUT
There would be problems.
Your cup of coffee, for ex
ample. Would it sail up to
ward the ceiling - and then
TURN OVER just at the
wrong time?
Little things like that could
make a mess of the coffee
break.
SPEAKING of speed
-. The progress-in-transporta-tion
reporters- tell, us that a
2,000 mph air bus that could
whisk you to Europe, or the
South Pacific Islands - or, for
that matter, to the South Pole
if you were foolish enough to
want- to -.go there - in 1V5
hours is on the s drawing
boards.
When it comes, they say, It
will have no luxuries. No
fancy meals. No drinks. May
be no windows to look out of.
No more seating space per
passenger than in a automo
bile with six passengers in it.
But, if you get there in an
hour and a half, you can stand
some crowding. Besides, the
fares, in such a speed bus
might be as much as a THIRD
less than presently prevailing
fares.
A WORD of advice:
Don't get too much excited.
. , If work began NOW on such
a project, the reporters ex
plain, it just MIGHT be ready
for use in ten years.
The mills of the modern
aed sUU grind titbax slowly.
Been Election Factor
jM(A..!tu . pprn was evidenced v n,.u
some minor police difficulty
during the campaign. L-anoi-date
John F. Kennedy instant
ly was on the long distance
telephone in behalf of King.
Nixon made no move, al
though Kennedy's telephone
call was nationally publicized.
Persons other than Morrow
associated with the vice pres
ident's campaign remarked
his avoidance of Negro con
tacts. In so close an election,
the Negro vote could be de
cisive. ,
Probably Too Late
It probably is too late for
Nixon or any other Republi
can to regain the Negro vote
until the present generations
of Negro voters have passed
on. President Kennedy is see
ing to that. Not a week passes
without some evidence of
Kennedy administration con
cern for Negroes. Last week,
for example, this con
The . Mau Mau were the
sworn enemies of the white
man, and before Me ena oi
the terror women carried pis
tols in their handbags even
in the capital city of Nairobi.
Said one authority on Kenya
politics, "Jomo is the only
wholly evil man I have ever
known."
S a i d .another, "Kenyatta
was and is a fanatic and a
Communist or as good as one."
But it was a different Ken
yatta who turned his face to
newsmen in the little town of
Marlal, Kenya, where the
British have him confined
some 200 miles from Nairobi.
"Forgive them for they
know not what they do," he
intoned.
His leadership, he said, "has
not been to darkness and
death but to light and prosperity."
Strictly Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(c) General Features Corp.
INTERVIEWING IS AN ART
In his book of stage remi
niscences, "A Victorian in Or
bit," which I mentioned yes-
terd ay, sir
Cedric Hard
w 1 c k e mis
c h ievously
gets back at
the interview
ers who have
plagued him
with pointed
and pointless
questions over
the last 50
Harris
years.
Appended to the text is a
droll "Handbook for Inter
viewers," in which Hardwicke
gives some terse and irrever
ent answers to the same ques
tions he has heard over and
over again - and to which,
until now, he had dutifully
given solemn and pretentious
answers, as befits a Knight of
the Empire.
"What is your advice to
young actresses?" is one fre
quent question. His admirably
succinct, and quite sensible,
reply: "Watch cats."
How many movies has he
made? "To many." How many
plays has he appeared in?
"Too few." What is an actor's
greatest asset? "An audience."
How does he choose a part? "I
read the contract first."
To the most common ques
tion, "What do you think of
Hollywood?" he answers with
almost tender irony, "I be
lieve that God felt sorry for
actors, so He created Holly
wood to give them a place in
the sun and a swimming pool.
The price they had to pay was
to surrender their talent." "
In my various travels
around the country, imperson
ating a lecturer, I am often
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF
A NEW JERSEY DELINQUENT was being tried for Hie
theft of an automobile. The case was flubbed by the
prosecution, however, and the judge was compelled to in-
in a verdict of "not
guilty."
The foreman of the jury
thereupon announced du
tifully, "Your Honor, we
find the crook that stole
that car not guilty.'
A young man tapped Mr.
Wimpfheuner on the back
and announced, Td like to
apeak to- you about your
daughter's hand." "Sit right
down, my boy, and tell me
more," beamed Mr. Wimp-
theyoung man. 'Td like the Jewelry on your daughter's hand
'
Screen Writer Philip Dunne wilt never forget the first word
spoken by his baby daughter. The Dunnes' black, huge, ferocious
dog stared down at the baby In her crib. The baby stared straight
back and said very clearly, "Daddy!"
C ISO. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicat I
in Fall
cern was evidenced by news
stories reporting that the ad
ministration was conducting
a drive to recruit Negro col
lege graduates for federal
jobs.
Cecil F. Poole, a Nero,
soon afterward was chosen to
be U. S. Attorney for the
northern district of Cali.
fornia. At least one desirable
diplomatic post has gone to a
Negro. Andrew Hatcher, a
Negro,, is No. 2 White House
press secretary.
The Justice Department Is
active on the civil rights front.
The President risks offense to
Negro voters only in his de
cision to postpone until next
year any request for further
civil rights legislation. Mean
time, his administration con
centrates on enforcement c2
existing voting rights laws.
If Republicans want Negro
votes they must prove it.
to Future
He also denied that he had
organized the Mau Mau. "
"If I had my way, I would
put it In the fire," he said. -
Be that as it may, even in
confinement, Kenyatta re
mains to Kenya's principal
native political parties the
symbol of their future inde
pendence and to the worried
European settlers all that is
violent and savage.
They fear that if Kenyatta
returns to leadership not only
their property but their lives
as well will be endangered. .'
As for the African political
parties, they have made Ken
yatta's immediate release the
price of their , cooperation
with British efforts to guide
Kenya toward independence
within two or three years.
They demand Kenyatta's
immediate release and ind&;
pendence now.
subjected . to so-called inter
views, usually by cub report
ers or by radio and TV people
with their microphones and
tapes. . ,
In not one interview out of
50 does the interviewer know
what questions to ask, or how
to ask them. They are always
the same tired and unthinking
queries, to which we inter
viewees soon make stock re
plies. If I were awakened out
of a sound sleep at 4 a.m. by
a strange voice asking, "Where
do you get the ideas for your
columns," I would mumble, "I
steal them," and fall right
back to sleep without a break
in my dream.
The apparent flippancy and
brusqueness of Hardwicke's
answers are an inevitable re
action to the same trite ques
tions asked year after year.
He knows that the interviewer
really cares little about the
theater, and knows less; that
tomorrow he will be asking
idiotic questions of a vivisecy
tlonist or a volley-ball player;
and that the interview, as it
appears in print, will make
him sound like a fool, a knave
or a dullard, or all three.
. The art of interviewing is
one of the greatest and rarest
talents in communications. In.
the hands of a master, like
Boswell, we get the "Life of
Johnson" - for what is that
but an extended interview by.
an incredibly tenacious re
porter? In the customary
hands, what we get is "Sir
Cedric, have you become an
American citizen?" And who
can blame him if he replies: "
"No. I doubt whether Eng
land could afford to lose India
and myself In the same gen?
eratlon."
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