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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 1, 1952 (Thursday)
Several hundred loggers,
truckers and other highway
users presented their views on
present highway legislation to
a legislative interim commit
tee here yesterday in the
county courthouse.
The city's experiment in
what was called "summer
working hours" apparently
was at an end today after a
poll of downtown merchants
revealed that a majority of
them plan to return to regu
lar hours Monday.
20 YEARS AGO
May 1. 1942 (Friday)
Sugar rationing starts in
Rogue valley; 3.281 Medford
residents register for ration
books on first day they are
available.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Older Girls are cleaning house
like mad and are."
30 YEARS AGO
May 1. 1932 (Sunday)
Medford Chamber of Com
merce announces plans to
form men's glee club; organ
ization to bo patterned after
Eugene Glcemen.
40 YEARS AGO
May 1. 1922 (Monday)
Five-year-old Medford boy
saves four-year-old companion
from drowning in abandoned
well by pulling him out with
a board.
Medford Mayor C. E. Gates
refutes rumor that he and
other city officials are mem
bers of Ku Klux KUm; slates
he burned applications given
him by Klan member.
SO YEARS AGO
May 1. 1912 (Tuesday)
Medford residents indicate
great interest in Santa Mon
ica, Calif., automobile races
won by Mercer car driven by
John DePalma at an average
speed of 69 miles per hour
for the 151-mile course.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent,- five or
six is good.
1. Is an enlarged, inflamed
toe joint known as a corn,
callus, or bunion?
2. Manila Uy is in what
group of Asiatic Islands?
3. which is larger In area,
Greenland, or Australia?
4. Which U.S. President
proposed a 14 point program
for peace during World War
1?
5. Was it in 1836, 1840 or
1858 that the U.S. declared
war against Mexico?
8. Which department of the
U.S. government has most to
do with conservation of nat
ural resources?
7. Arc bats classified as
birds, mammals, or crusta
ceans? 8. "Whizzcr" Whl c. cx-foot-bal!
slar. was recently ap
pointed to what office?
9. What body of water, con
necting Long Island Sound
and New York harbor, bears
the name river even though
it Is not a river?
10. If you should buy len
gallons of gasoline In Canada
would you get more. less, or
the same, than if you bought
It in the U.S.?
Answers: 1. Bunion. 2. Phil
ippines. 3. Australia. 4. Wood
row Wilson, 5. 1846. 6. De
partment of Interior. ,. Mam
mals. 8, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice. 9. The East River. 10.
More.
TUESDAY. MAY 1. 19B2
Time Mess Time
Peace, it's wonderful !
It is most encouracincr to note that it is the
same time of day on one
ford today as it is on the
clocks coincide with the time broadcast by the
radio and TV stations. When it's 10 a.m. in the
courthouse, it is also 10 a.m. in the schools; and
3 p.m. in the Mail Tribune newsroom is also 3
p.m. in the Mail Tribune business office.
Last summer's confusion over time is no more.
In Medford, that is.
IN OTHER less ertlightened communities the
time mess is just as bad as it was last summer,
and no amount of pooh-poohing is going to over
come it.
The Willamette valley is a sea of temporal
chaos.
The state as a whole is similarly chopped up
into bits and pieces.
In Lucrene, where the
ed the citizens adopt fast time for the summer,
the schools decided to open an hour earlier, with
out changing the clocks. Petitions with the signa
tures of several hundred
tained, asking a return
threatening to send their
unless this is done.
And so it goes.
yHE MESS, as is well known, results from a
bit of recent history, here reviewed briefly:
Two years ago the people voted to keep the
entire state on standard time. But the 1961 legis
lature passed a bill which permitted Multnomah
and four surrounding counties to adopt DST if
they wished.
Last summer they did
state into two time areas. Whereupon other areas
in the standard time zone "voluntarily" changed
to DST. (Or, rather,; some merchant groups and
others did, throwing everyone into confusion.)
Members of the legislature who voted tor the
state-splitting bill, and
claimed they coulcln t foresee such a result, but
some people did, including this newspaper, and
warned about it.
MEDFORD was bifurcated as badly as any area
last year, but this year, praise be, we all had
sense enough to stay together.
It is our hope that the state aa a whole will
have enough sense to stay
time next November.
At that time there will be a measure calling
for uniform, statewide
it passes, the whole state
(except ior a tiny slice
is on Mountain time), and will also be uniform
with Washington and California.
If it tloes not pass, we will be laced with the
possibility of more confusion, for the present
law would remain in effect.
A THIRD possibility exists. A group is trying
tr rrot an inifinrivo rnpusnrp nn flip ViMllnr.
fes-u cw. , ... ..
which would amend the constitution to provide
uniform standard time throughout Oregon.
It may or may not get
signatures to get on the
may not pass.
We hope it cloesn t make it, tor the uonstitu-i
tion is no place ior
Too. like daylight time or not, it is the only
answer to getting uniform time throughout the
state AND throughout the Pacific Coast. E.A.
What Fishermen Endure
It's amazing what some people will endure for
the sake of sport in this case, fishing.
At Howard Prairie Lake last Saturday we saw
something we've never
gale, snow and hail driving down, and the sun
shining palely all at the same time.
And. along with it,
them with no shelter, bobbing in the icy water.
The sports-lovers were clad in every variety of
cold weather garb imaginable.
I7E WERE assured
' Johnston that the weather was NOT, as
someone had alleged, a blizzard. But if it wasn't,
it was close enough to it to be a first cousin.
The crowds were understandably a bit thin
Friday night (it was snowing) and Saturday
morning (with six inches on the ground). During
the day, a few more hardy souls came along.
But on Sunday, when the clouds thinned out
and the sun shone, car after car, boat after boat,
arrived, and, undaunted by the chill brisk breeze,
I set out for fish.
RESPITE the fact that parking facilities are
grossly and inexcusably inadequate, the com-
plaints were few. and the general level of good
inatured kidding high.
The new restaurant-store building is well de
signed and attractive, the attendants attentive
and courteous, the fireplace warm, and the food
; adequate.
The fish well, the fish are cooperative to
some hopeful anglers and wholly uncooperative
to others. We know of one boat in which three
anglers spent hour after hi .ir on Sunday, hope
fully trying every legal wile known to Walton
ians single eggs, egg flusters, spinners, worms,
even (in desperation) a wet fly. Also some sotto
voce cursing.
All about them groups were (in the inelegant
phrase) "limiting out." Hut they ihkw.!H.ehy
threesome were skunked.
Oh, well. Maybe next time. E.A.
side of the street in Med-1
other side. The city hall's
city council recommend
mothers have been ob
to "legal" time, and
children an hour "late"
so, thus chopping the
the Governor, too, later
together, come election
daylight saving time. If
will be together again
oi eastern Oregon which
the needed number ot
ballot, and if so, may or
tnne-setiing legislation.
seen before: A howling
scores ot boats, many oi
by Concessionaire Bob
L
Dennis the Menace
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"SHHH! Voh'T YELL AT HIM! HE'S NOTtffJl.'OHO
SAYS HE'S QKSUEPUrSKKNgSSr
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under
certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Lc'iers submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
Down-to-Earth Understanding
To the Editor: Let's have
some down-to-earth under
standing on this "Home Rule."
Reading over the proposed
charter for Jackson county,
unless one has a lawyer's
mind one can become very
confused. Let's bring this out
in simple language.
As I understand, in chap
ter four (administration) of
the charter, the seven com
missioners would appoint all
officers we now elect in our
county government, therefore
we will no longer be permit
ted to vote for sheriff, treas
urer, county clerk, surveyor,
county engineer, assessor, etc.
Also from other sources I
understand the chairman of
the board on "Home Rule"
will have permanent duty at
a figure of $22,000.00 per
year while the other six on
partial duty receive $7,000.00.
Now this chairman, being
on permanent duty, will learn
all the ins and outs of what
is on foot. The other six learn
from him. and since they are
only partly versed on the top
ics in discussion at their bi
monthly meetings, naturally
they fall in line. Do you see
the danger? Could easily run
into "one man rule."
Do we want to open one
loophole where communism,
or any other subversive
group, might enter our county
government? Perhaps you
tmnk you can dispose of
"Home Rule" if not satisfac
tory. Let s not start the fire
in the first place.
To vote for whom we want
is our American heritage.
Let's keep it.
Ralph C. Oakes
043 Ross Lane, No.
Medford.
-O-
Edilor's note: The county
engineer is now appointive,
not elective. Proposed salary
for chairman of the board of
commissioners is $7,200 per
year, not $22,000, and for the
other commissioners is $100
per month, or $1,200 per year,
not $7,000.
Sour on "Bucks"
To the Editor: "When it's
round up Blossom Bucks in
Medford," sounds like the
heading of a beautiful song,
but my thoughts are in the
reverse.
Who In the world gave
birth to that brainstorm? It
couldn't be our Chamber of
Commerce, or could it?
Well, the reason I'm so sour
is because I happen to be of
the mill - rim average poor
people, honest but poor, and
for some reason they seem
to go hand in hand, and I'm
happy that way. When I feel
I'm getting something put
over on mc. it's a different
story.
Now, I stood in the wind
and the rain with chattering
teeth, because I was freezing,
clulchod in my hand were my
235 Blossom Bucks, which
1 fell I worked so hard to get.
and with the help of my good
neighbor. Because, you sec, I
was going to get some little
surprise. Oh! I got the sur
prise all right, and probably
. pneumonia, when the bidding
i started at 200 and went way
beyond, so 1 was slopped be
i fore 1 ever got started,
j Well, I didn't expect a TV,
i radio, washing machine, iron
; or toaster with my 235 Bios
1 som Bucks, but I d have been
, so happy with a ball point
pen, and my outlook would
' have been by far better
Mrs. lrnia Henderson
7L'l! Dakota ave.
Medlord.
Steel Price and Dictatorship
To the Editor I cannot
understand the complacency
of the general public as we
lose our heritage of free
speech and free enterprise
system. ",ie President's attack
on U.S. Steel was similar to
an attack by a dictator in a
MLUFORD
Communistic economy and
similar vicious attacks may
be made in a temper tantrum
on "the butcher, the baker or
candlestick maker" - yea,
even on a newspaper.
With our free enterprise
system throttled, with stock
holders deprived of a fair re
turn on savings invested, who
will pay for the "get-lhe-vote"
give away programs he
wants in order to maintain
and prolong the Kennedy dy
nasty? After all the lives lost and
billions spent on wars to save
us from a dictator - what do
we have - and what differ
ence if his name is Hitler,
Khrushchev or Kennedy.
Let's wake up!
Mrs. E. W. Heatherington
2055 South Holley
Medford
Direct Voter Control
To the Editor: A recent let
ter by Mr. Wilson contained
what appears to be a very
reasonable objection to the
proposed provision in the
county charter, that the clerk,
assessor, surveyor and sher
iff be appointive offices. He
has observed that our elective
officials have been more
thrifty with our tax dollar
(O & C dollar).
It seems to me the matter
of thrift would simply become
the responsibility of the elect
ed commission. Under the
charter one elective form will
replace another.
The real problem in county
government is our ever-increasing
need for services as
the county grows. Mr. Wil
son states we will "trade our
priceless heritage to vote for
so-called efficiency." Under
the charter we would vote
; for seven instead of eight of
ficers.
We would be trading that
one vote for more than just
administration efficiency. We
would have direct voter con
trol of the legislative power
as well as the administrative
power of our commissioners.
Mrs. Susan E. Shivcly
314 Hargadine St.
Ashland, Ore.
The Veterans' View
To tlie Editor: At a meeting
of the Veterans Allied Council
attended by delegates repre
senting American Legion Post
14. American Legion Post 15.
VFW Post 1833. VWWI Post
540. MOP1I Post 147, and
DAV Post 8, the following
letter was fully concurred in,
by all in attendance.
"Nikita Khrushchev and his
crowd, with never a blush,
break each and every agree
ment they enter into, just as
soon as it shows itself to be
an inconvenience to them.
"They agreed some time ago
to discontinue bomb testing
in the atmosphere, then with
out an apology or an explana
tion why they thought it nec
essary, and in pure contempt
of tlie agreement, cut loose
with testing in a bigger way.
with, greater numbers and
strength than had ever before
been exploded in the air.
"Now they have the gall to
protest, and nuoke threats
against TJS for going ahead
Willi out testing. They are
acting t,,p role of "wronged
party ". We would never have
broken the promise; they can
celled the agreement out of
existence when they showed
themselves to be the liars they
are. by exploding 50 megaton
nuclear bombs last ycir.
' We can always count on
them Til are dependable
people, these Russians. If
they tell you something you
can surely believe it (believe
it to be a damned lie) if you
know what we mean.
"As Christian people with a
respect and regaid for all hu
manity we should strive tor
disarmament among nations,
but ve do not believe thai wc
arc rallrd upon, as a Christian
nation, to play up naively to
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDfORD,
Argentina
In New President Economics
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
For a month Argentina has
drifted dangerously in crisis,
caught in the cross-currents
between re.
surgent Peron
ism and mil
itary leaders
bitterly op
posed to any
thing resem-
I tma4 I bling a return
I Jml I t0 the Plicies
Xlaj of the ex-dictator.
In t h e
N.wiom midst of ,his
has been President Jose Ma
ria Guido, placed in office by
the military after the fall of
President Arturo Frondizi.
This past week end Guido
was forming his second cabi
net in four weeks.
Lack of Plan
Multiplying Guido's diffi
culties was an apparent lack
of plan by the men who put
him in office and who also
the ego of the godlessness of
a lying nation like the Soviet,
that has never yet given us a
reason to believe they would
ever live up to any kind of a
disarmament agreement.
"So we are asking WHY
TRY? Just call off this dis
armament talk and tell them
what fie Free World will do
if they try to pull a sneaker
on us, and of course, be pre
pared to carry out what we
say we'll do.
"They intend to bury us
eventually, and we are help
ing them spar for time by
talking with them. You can
count on them to continue
building up militarily, no mat
ter what kind of agreement
they enter into."
Pat Graham, Secretary
Veterans Allied Council
Medford
Pocketbooks and the Charter
To the Editor: Yesterday's
front page story, and the eight
pages of delinquent personal
property taxes recently pub
lished in, the Medford Mall
Tribune, should convince the
most skeptical voter that Jack
son county needs the Home
Rule Charter.
That list is a testimonial to
the inefficiency, lack of cor
ordination, lack of authority
and gross waste that is built
in to our present form of
county government.
For over ten years this half
million dollar delinquency
list has been allowed to de
velop. Much of it is now lost
forever, yet this is the first
time the list has been publish
ed. Perhaps specific officials
have been to blame for this
$500,000 accumulation. But
rather it appears that the
SYSTEM has been to blame.
Sincere men have had to work
under a badly organized gov
ernment structure. Authority
has been divided. Responsi
bility is ill-defined.
The Charter is designed to
grant authority, pinpoint re
sponsibility and assure the
citizens of effective control
over their county affairs.
As your article pointed out,
the ordinary voters and tax
payers of Jackson county
have had to pay EXTRA taxes
to make up for these uncol
lected delinquencies. This
waste this failure of county
government has cost us
money every year, every tax
bill.
This is not bungling by
some distant government.
This is not far off Washing
ton, nv on-shots or foreign aid.
This is waste right here in
Jackson county.
We need a change in our
county government. We can-
not afford NOT to change.
I The voters of Jackson county
should look into their pocket-
books and then look into the
I opportunities for economy mi
lder the Home Rule Charter.
I R. E. Collins
' 235 South Oakdale
Medford
I Biggest Farce
To the Editor: Our Pear
I Blossom affair, as far as the
: auction is concerned, was the
biggest farce in history. What
i happened to the average joe.
I with maybe 10 to 100 Blos
som Bucks.' He might as well
have stayed home! Unless he
had recently purchased a new
car. farm equipment, or an
I article worth thousands, and
I received "Bucks ", he was out
of the running, far before the
; auction even began. Who ever
I heard of a $20 coffee pot
worth over 10.000 "bucks", oi
! a $2 to $5 value going for
1 up to 5.000 bucks?
I In my humble opinion, if;
, Medford wishes to keep up
I community spirit, think in
terms of the average guy j
even though he ir. '. worth a
mint in Blossom Rucks! I
Sarah Tlioreson.
I Talent, Ore. I
OREGON
Drifting,
suffered a lack of unity
among themselves.
In contrast were the Peron
istas, who at least kne- what
they wanted.
They demanded an end to
the austerity which had be
gun to restore international
confidence in the Argentine
peso and a return to national
ism which would be felt by
foreign investors.
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
THE HELICOPTERS
Can Tho, South Viet Nam
At this season, when peasants
burn the rice
stubble to re
store their
fields, the
bright air is
acrid with
smoke, even
at 6,000 feet.
The compet
ing noises of
the big hclicp
ter's rotors
the b i g heli
copters rotors
Alsnp
deadening, downright painful
The sense of being trapped
in an aerial cement mixer is
just beginning to be a bit op
pressive when suddenly the
little delta town of Rach Gia
comes into sight, lying on a
river among palm gardens,
with an airport on its flank.
Swiftly the helicopter de
scends. Swiftly 12 wiry little
Vietnamese Rangers clamber
aboard.
Soon the air loses its sharp
smokcy tang, for now the
helicopter is traversing wild
country, swampy and uncul
tivated. Somewhere ahead, in
this empty quarter of the Ca
mau delta, there is a little
patch that is farmed-a little
patch isolated and normally
impossible to reach except
by the narrow waterways that
criss-cross the whole deua.
Here, in this remote refuge,
the commander of the Com
munist guerrillas in this prov
ince has set up his command
post, safe against all but one
sort of surprise attack,
rpO SURPRISE, to envelop.
to catch the Communist
leader and his troops, are
now the missions of the heli
copters of the 57lh Transpor
tation Squadron and the two
companies of Vietnamese sol
diers whom they are carry
ing. ' For one passenger, at least,
it is a new way of going into
a fight. What will it be like?
one asks oneself. And then,
quite suddenly, a patch of
brighter green shows up
ahead. The helicopter all but
plummets downwards. The
soldiers fan out rapidly, run
ning hunched over, through
a dry rice field. And our heli
copter and all the others take
the air again, looking for all
the world like a covey of
giant mantises.
From somewhere comes the
quick snick-sniek of a sniper's
fire. As though on signal,
troops to the left pour round
after round into a palm hut
standing by a little canal. Off
to the right appears one of
the American advisory offi
cers, red-haired Capt. Jack
Cantrell. "I think we landed
just a scosh off target," says
the captain a bit glumly, as
Capt. Nghe, the tough Viet
namese Rangtr commander
puts out men on the flanks
and prepares, to sweep for
ward. TT IS a long, hot, toilsome
1 sweep. The Rangers are on
the right bank of the main
canal, and a company of the
Civil Guard are on the left
bank. The untended canal
boats, loaded to the gunwales
with tiie pineapple harvest,
show that there was a busy
Try and Stop
By BENNETT CERF-
"nOR HIS INFORMATIVE book, "Actors Talk About Act
A ing," Author Lewis Funke asked top'-star Paul Muni
what he thought of. the "Method School" of acting. "I have
my own meinoa, replica
Muni, "It's something
like the method my
ir.uihcr used to make
app'! pie. A friend told
mama one day, 'Your
apple pie is out of this
world. Break down and
tell me the recipe.' Mama
thought for a minute,
then replied, 'Well, I
wash my hands, comb my
hair, put on a clean
apron and then I make
apple pie.' "
According to the ahvavs-
reliable Jack Lemmcn. a. lobster strolled into a restaurant and
t down at a tat$j by the window. -What would you like, sir?"
asked a waiter, and the lobster answered, "A little mayonnaise."
Rueful meditation from D. E. Twigj;
Doc said he d have me on my feet.
The lat time I w ill.
And that he did ... I sold my car
.o So I could pay his bill.
Bob Campbell, the Westwood Sophocles, mvs that the troubli
with being a parent i that by the time you're experienced
you're unemployable.
C 19M by Stnne'.t Cert f utributed br Kim I"t:um Syndicate
But Some
From his comfortable Span
ish exile in Madrid, Juan D.
Peron was pulling the party
strings and seeing what might
prove to be his best chance
for a return to power.
Not asked but giving their
enthusiastically received sup
port were the Argentine Com
munists. For those who still held
hope for Argentina, President
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
life here not long ago; but
at first there seems to be no
life now. The sun is broiling.
The feeder cinals, just too
wide to jump, are slimey
work to ford.
Then the toilsome monoto
ny is broken by another quick
snick-snick and another burst
of fire. This time an excited
soldier races in from the
flank with a pitiful bundle
of Chinese medicine, politi
cal tracts, and carefully writ
ten notebooks. The soldier has
found and killed the medical
officer on the staff of the
Communist provincial com
mander. This little success is
followed by another. Five
black-clad Viet Cong troops
are discovered huddled, neck
deep in water, under the over
hanging bank of a feeder
canal
So the sweep goes forward,
slowly and methodically, for
a long, hot couple of hours.
The bag is meager enough-the
medical officer killed; a con
siderable cache' of ammuni
tion simultaneously revealed
and destroyed by ils own ex
plosion when a palm hut is
burned because Viet Cong
flags arc found in it; and
nine prisoners taken. The
main body of the enemy plain
ly slipped out of the way in
the nick of time.
'FHE little liaison plane end---
lessly making its turns
overhead reports the enemy's
main body-about a hundred
men-tn flight across the fields
about two kilometers away.
An air strike is called for;
and before long fighter planes
are overhead. Again and
again, they make their vici
ous dives, their rockets thun
dering, their machine guns
furiously chattering. Another
sweep, in the direction of the
fighters' target area, is wear
ily decided on.
Once more the wiry little
troops fan out on the flanks.
The march is .across rice
fields, black from the stubble
burning, and through thick
ets of high grass and reeds,
which the liaison plane
searches for ambushed men,
flying perilously low. There
are more feeder canals. There
is another main canal with
more abandoned boats and
more palm huts from which
women and children silently
peer.
But the sun is westering.
Quite suddenly, as if from no
where, a helicopter returns
to pick up a couple of higher
ranking American staff offi
cers who had "come along
to get a feel of this kind of
show." Captain Nghe and his
Rangers, Captain Cantrell,
and the men of the Civil
Guard company all turn to
wave as the helicopter as
cends again and sets its course
for the delta's capital here in
Can Tho.
"We catch a few of them
every time, and a lot of them
every third or fourth time,"
says the helicopter pilot philo
sophically, after he hears the
day's score. "Anyway I guess
that Communist provincial
commander will have to find
himself a new command post
after this day's work; and
when he does we'll go get him
there."
School" of
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l
Hope Seen
Minister
Guido himself provided
slight, encouraging ray.
He had shown unexpected
strength in dealing witn the
various military factions. For
economics minister in his sec
ond cabinet he had selected
Alvaro Carlos Alsogaray.
Alsogaray, who has been
described as looking like a
small-town banker or school
principal, directed Argenti
na's austerity and stabiliza
tion program for nearly two
years under Frondizi.
It was Alsogaray who late
in 1959 arranged nearly $30
million in loans and credits
to help stabilize the Argen
tine economy.
The peso ..eadied on the
international monetary ex
change. Foreign investments
and private enterprise wera
encouraged.
As part of his vision of a
"new Argentina" of econom
ic plenty, Alsogaray sought
to build a prosperous middle
class as a bulwark against
Communism.
A year ago, Alsogaray lost
his post in the Frondizi cab
inet. In the ensuing months,
four economic ministers came
and went.
A poor wheat crop led to
a drastic cut in exports and
in 1961 the country's trado
deficit amounted to $450 mil
lion, double that of the year
before.
b 18 per cent.
The cost of living mounted
The announcement of Also
garay's return to government
led to an immediate strength
ening of the peso in interna-
But the way ahead will ba
tional exchange rates,
rouh and possibly of short
duration.
Labor leaders received
news of his appointment un
enthusiastically. He still must
face the problems of the enor
mous deficits piled up annual
ly by government - operated
services such as the railroads.
And among the Argentine
people there is no sure sign
of a determination to carry
out the sacrifices Alsogaray
will demand.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(cl Field Enterprises Inc.
"Acquaintances" are friends
who have recently done some
thing with which we don't
care to be associated.
You and I appreciate each
other's good points; but
those two have formed a
"m u I u a 1 admiration so
ciety." 1 am agreeable: you aro
easily swayed; he is just a
piece of putty.
My stories are a touch
off-color, yours are risque;
his are filthy. .
I took a leave of absence
because of "nervous exhaus
tion" from overwork; you did
the same because of an "emo
tional disturbance"; he did
the same because of a "men
tal breakdown."
I believe in planning so
cial events with "cere
mony," but you invest
yours with "pomp."
When a man insists that
"life is a matter of dog-eal-dog,"
you may be sure that
he regards his fellow men as
dogs. (Besides, dogs don't eat
dogs: men are the only crea
tures who commonly prey on
their own kind.)
What I call "conversion"
in myself, I call "apostasy"
in others.
Whenever I hear a 6 a.m.
riser intone proudly that "It's
the early bird that gets tho
worm," I think of Moran S
reply to Mack: "And what
about the early worm?"
The purest definition of
the provincial person is the
one who, when abroad, re
fers to the inhabitants either
s "natives" or as "foreign
ers." When a man begins a sen
tence wilh "History proves
. ." it is a better than even
bet lhat he is going to con
elude with some profoundly
unhistorical generalization.
The semantic differences
between "leisure." "loaf
ing." and "bumming." can
be precisely calibrated on .
the scale of annual income.
Speaking of calibration, ev
erybody measures manners by
his own degree of etiquette:
we call "well - mannered''
those who observe the same
degree of amenities wc do
but those who observe more,
wc call over-polite or prissy.
I made a technical error;
you goofed: he rr.ide an
inexcusable blunder.
The full f-irce of human
aggression is borne upon us
only when v,e stop to realire
that "pacifist" has become a
dirty word in every nation 011
the globe: all governments,
no matter how they may dis
agree among themselves,
acrce in finding him their
common foe.