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History from the f Hem of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 14, 1952 (Wednesday)
nislrirt Attorney Paul W
Havlland defeated in his bid
for reelection by Walter Nun-
ley, 33-year-old attorney wno
campaigned on the issue of
cnmhllne. charging Haviland
with failure to enforce the
anti gambling laws of the
state.
The Medford city council
yesterday unanimously up
held Mayor Diamond Flynn's
veto of daylight saving time
for Medford.
20 YEARS AGO
May 14, 1942 (Thursday)
Primary election returns
show Charles McNary leading
Arthur M. Geary, 108,224 to
23,102 in Republican ' sena
torial contest: Edward C.
Kellv. Medford Democrat, and
Earl T. Ncwbry, Talent Re
publican, ahead in state sena
tor nl contests.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Analy
sis of the primary electfolt
vote by the heavy thinkers Is
now under way. Inexpert
' opinion holds that too many
voted for some candidates and
not enough for others."
30 YEARS AGO
May 14. 1932 (Saturday)
David Lowry elected stu
dent body president of Med
ford high school: Russell
Hogue named treasurer.
Handbills containing sensa
tional charges concerning pri
mary election candidates ap
pear in rural districts.
40 YEARS AGO
May 14, 1922 (Sunday)
Self Denial week at Jack
son school, during which pu
pils gave up candy, ice cream,
moving pictures and gum,
nets $45 for relief of starving
Armenians.
Tim Pnsslne Show, stage
production starring Willie and
Eugene Howard, scheduled for
performances In Medford.
SO YEARS AGO
May 14. 1912 (Monday)
Detroit in uproar as Ameri
can League President Ben
Johnson suspends baseball
star Ty Cobb for assaulting
spectator; Detroit team goes
on strike and break up of
major leagues threatened.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ol
six is good.
1. Is a pimpernel a species
of fish, flower, or bird?
2. Who Is the author of de
tective stories about "Perry
Mason"?
3. Ulysses S. Grunt and Jef
ferson Davis both served as
army officers in the War with
MeNico: true or false?
4. The donor of funds for
the erection of the National
Gallery of Art in Washington,
DC, was Andrew ?
5. Who tamed "The
Sinew"?
0. Is Faneuil Unit, the
Cradle of Liberty, in New
York, Boston or Albany?
7. Into what did Shadrarh,
Meshach and Abednego fall?
8. What is the hardest sub
stance known In nature?
0. What ocean lies belween
Africa and Australia?
10. What ex-Presldenl of the
U. S. wrote la's "Personal
Memoirs" while ill of canrer?
Answers: 1. Flower. 2. Erie
Slanley Gardner. 3. True. 4.
Mollon. 5. Petruchio. 6. Bos
ton, 7. The midst ol Ihe fiery
furnace. 8. Diamond. 9. In
dian Ocean. 10. Ulysses S.
Grant.
J3 NIW.PAFi
MONDAY. MAY 14. 1962
More Self-Rule for Counties
The degree to which counties are creatures of
the state is not well understood. In Oregon, state
government prescribes the limits the organization
and function of the county governments.
Two examples come quickly to mind of such
limitations put upon Multnomah County. A few
years ago, the district attorney ruled that the
county lacked legal authority to join with the
City of Portland in financing a metropolitan
youth commission. Not until the legislature passed
a special bill could this be done.
More recently the district attorney expressed
doubt that the county could legally join with the
city in the development of a stadium.
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T"HE idea that counties should have greater
powers of "home rule" has been growing, not
just in Oregon but throughout the country. Many
states have moved toward reform.
In Oregon, the way was paved by a county
home rule amendment to the constitution passed
by the people in 1958 after referral from the
legislature.
The 1959 legislature established procedures
by which counties could adopt home rule charters
that would give counties authority over matters
of county concern and permit them to set up their
own organizational structures.
Seven counties, Benton, Hood River, Jackson,
Lane, Marion, Washington and Sherman, have
engaged in home rule charter studies. Three of
them, Benton, Jackson
May 18 on charter measures.
DENTON'S charter proposal is the result of a
two-year study by a nine-member committee
It has become a hot political issue.
Benton's approach is perhaps unique in that
the vote this time will not decide the issue of
whether the elected three
be replaced by a single
posal leaves the elective court intact but provides
that the people in 1964 will vote on whether they
want a change. It so, an elected council will ap
point the administrator.
Meanwhile, the new charter would make all
other county offices appointive instead of elec
tive, and it would spell out the county's powers
to deal with its own problems.
a
THE county home rule movement requires no
llnifM'tYiIttr !s m-rranWat irvi Qmnnff nnnnfloc
Charters may or may not upset present county
courts. But experiences in Multnomah County and
most others have proved the soundness of making
lesser ottices appointive. As proor, we have only
to recall the sad affair in our surveyor's office
or our dilemma now in trying to pick a qualified
sheriff from 28 candidates.
But the real urgency for home rule comes in
the need for more powers to deal with metro
politan area problems, which now lie in a sort of
governmental no-man s land.
Benton, Jackson and Sherman counties are
Oretron pioneers in a development that is certain
ultimately to sweep the state. We shall be watch
ing with great interest what their people do.
Oregon Journal, Portland.
Liberal, Conservative, Progressive
The following are the concluding paragraphs of a
speech delivered before the Women's National Press
Club in Washington recently by Walter Lippmann, dis
tinguished columnist, and twice winner of the Pulit
zer prize for reporting international affairs.
I do not agree with
order to defend ourselves and to survive we must
put a ston to progressive movement which has
gone on throughout this century. This movement
began in the administration of Theodore Roose
velt. Its purpose was to reform and advance our
own social order, and at the same time to recog
nize that we must live in the world beyond our
frontiers. We shall lose all our power to cope
with our problems if we
come a stagnant, neurotic, frightened, and sus.
picious people. Let us
denying ourselves the hope, by depriving our
selves of the oldest American dream, which is
that we are making a better society on this earth
than has ever been made before.
Is all this conservative? Is all this liberal? Is
it all progressive? It is, I say, all of these. There
is no irreconcilable contradiction among these
noble objectives. Do not Republicans believe in
democracy, ami do not Democrats believe in a
republic? Such labels may 'describe political
parties in England ; they tlo not describe political
attitudes in the United States.
PVERY truly civilized
conservative and liberal and progressive.
A civilized man is conservative in that his
deepest loyalty is to the Western heritage of ideas
which originated on the shores of the Mediter
ranean Sea. Because of that loyalty he is the in
defatigable defender of our own constitutional
doctrine, which is that all power, that all gov
ernment, that all officials, that all parties, and
all majorities are under the law and that none
of them is sovereign and omnipotent.
The civilized man is a liberal because the
writing and the administration of the laws should
be done with enlightenment and compassion,
with tolerance and charity, and with affection.
And the civilized man is progressive because
the times change and the social order evolves and
new things are invented and changes occu. This
conservative who is a liberal is a progressive be
cause he must work and live, he must govern and
debate in the world as it is in his own time and as
it is going to become.
(c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
and bheirnan, will vote
- man county court shall
administration. 1 he pro
those who think that in
allow oui-selves to be
not punish ourselves by
and enlightened man is
Dennis the Menace
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Why Mora?
To the Editor: Should our
slogan for county government
be "The More the Merrier"?
We have enough inefficiency
in our county offices now,
why add seven more men to
worry about?
Loran Fowler
Route 1, Box 332
Talent, Ore.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The always interesting Sa
lem Statesman remarked the
other day that if it weren't
for the fact that Sentaor Mar
garet Chase Smith of Maine
is a woman she might well be
accused of being bitten by the
Presidential bug. The Salem
paper went on to say:
"A few weeks ago she took
her Republican male col
leagues to task for backing
away from an all-out political
fight with President Kennedy
in 1964. In effect, she called
them all political cowards.
She then turned her not in
considerable tongue - lashing
talents on the President him
self. IndicaUng his actions on
the foreign scene have been
vaccilating, she went on to ac
cuse him of ignoring his cam
paign pledges in the area of
national defense. Again she
prodded her fellow Republi
cans for not taking up the
lance and jousting with Ken
nedy." 1M4E Statesman then added:
'If Spnntnr Smith is
going to sound like a poten
tial Presidential candidate,
whv shouldn't she act like
one, also? T here is nothing in
the constitution to bar her
from seeking the highest of
fice. What better time can
there be for a Republican
woman to shatter the Brittle
precedent which has kept
women from the Presidential
contest?"
WELL, WHY NOT?
Victoria was one of the
greatest rulers in English his
tory - perhaps THE greatest.
The Victorian Era, named for
her, included the greater part
of the laoo's. It was an era
in which Great Britain reach
ed the HEIGHT of its power.
The Victorian Age was one of
great industrial expansion at
home and imperial expansion
abroad.
Under her rule, the English
people became high-minded,
modest, self-righteous and en
terprising. Victoria ruled for
63 years, the longest reign of
any British monarch. She be
came queen at a time when
the British people neither
liked nor respected the throne.
But by being above reproach
she raised the throne to a
position of respect and vener
ation. She was a wise and capable
monarch. She came to be re
garded as the symbol of Great
Britain's greatness, and was
even regarded as personally
responsible for much of it.
Such is the verdict of history.
rpilE Statesman says in its
piece:
"No one could believe
seriously that a woman can
be elected President at this
time, but some woman, some
day, must be the first to try.
Senator Smith has good quali
fications. She is known and
respected nationally."
tl'HY NOT TRY IT?
Why not try It NOW?
At this moment in our his
tory, we seriously need a
budget balancer. As a budget
balancer, I'll bet the average
woman would beat the aver
age man. Imagine a good
housekeeper, as Margaret
Chase Smith must be, letting
her household run THREE
HUNDRED BILLION DOL
LARS Into '.he red!
MEDFORD MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
COOKIE JAR WAS EMPTY!
the case.
Alarming Thoughts
To the Editor: Alarming
thoughts grip us, and red
lights suddenly appear at
times, and we'd like to tell
friends and neighbors about
them.
A lot of folks are thinking
cautionary and precautionary
thoughts about the socialistic
scheme of County "Home
R u 1 e." Benjamin Franklin
said, "Experience is a dear
school, but fools will learn
in no other." A lot of folks
are thinking of how foolish
and slumbering sleepy they
were when they failed to vote,
and vote against the repeal
ing of the 18th amendment;
and let the alcohol factories,
the profiteers, and the gulli
ble drinkers vote the monster
traffic in!
Happily the commie-inspir
ed aluminum - trust sponsored
scheme to contaminate our
wonderful Medford spring wa
ter with "fluoridation" to
"save the children's teeth"
was detected and voted down
by our cautious citizens.
Now let's be wise enough
and cautious enough in time
enough to vote down this so
cialist inspired commie back
ed dictatorial scheme to put
our county Into a jam by
home rule" in the undemo
cratic hands of a few. A word
to the wise is sufficient.
A neighbor recently told us
that in his own district a cer
tain "interim zoning" scheme
mushroomed, and was about
to be put over, when one
woman suddenly became duly
alerted as to its true intent,
and suddenly got "on her
toes' and on here telephone,
and let the neighbors far and
near know about the proposed
voting time, and so instead of
a few "putting it over" by
their votes, people came en
masse and voted it down flat.
About "home rule," let's not
jump to unwise conclusions
and vote in a proven blood
sucking octopus others have
had a whale of a time to rid
themselves of!
Say, friends and neighbors,
be sure to vote, and vote NO
on "home rule!"
You, will, won't you. Well,
thank you, we had hoped you
would.
H. R. Bulman,
Route 4, Box 3I6A,
Medford
Community Pride
To the Editor: It will prove
a source of great community
pride as well as a tremendous
asset, if Robert Duncan is
elected to represent t h e
Fourth District in Congress.
I have known Bob Duncan
and his lovely wife, Marijane,
for a number of years. They
and their six children are a
part of this community.
They've grown up, worked
hard, and contributed much
to the life and spirit and bet
terment of their home area.
They are extremely charit
able In their reactions to
their fellowmen.
With Bob's fine legal and
legislative background (three
terms in the Oregon legisla
ture, twice elected Speaker
of the House), his exceptional
speaking ability, his imagina
tion, his sound judgment and
ability to get along with col
leagues - he can best repre
sent this area.
I sincerely believe that Bob
has all the qualities that com
bine to make up the neces
sary ingredients of a t o p
notch congressman: and I
hope that you, as I intend to
do, will cast your vote for
Robert B. Duncan for Con
gress.
Mrs. Hugh Fricl
2784 Valley View rd.
Ashland, Ore.
Foreign News: Macmillan-De Gaulfe To
Meet; Pakistan's Attitude; Car Prices
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign
news cables:
Gloves Off
When British Prime Minis
ter Harold Macmillan meets
French President Charles de
Gaulle near
Paris June 2-3
there probab
1 y will be
some gloves
off infighting.
The sessions
...in i . ,
will uc pan ui
I yVrrl la country
JLJ week end at
Ntwiom Chat eau de
Champs, with the two leaders
talking mostly in private. The
conference could prove deci
sive in whether Britain gets
into the European Common
Market.
It could be equally decisive
on whether France eases off
its policy of indifference to
Washington's efforts to nego
tiate a settlement with Russia
over Berlin and nuclear test
ing. Officials in London deny
that Britain 'will offer de
Gaulle easier access to nu
clear information in return
for support of its common
market bid.
Pakistan Business
American Embassy officials
in Karachi are keeping a
wary eye on the Pakistan gov
ernment's attitude towards
foreign businessmen and in
vestments. Even though Pak
istan has worked consistently
to attract foreign capital,
there are some signs that the
atmosphere may be changing.
What the embassy people are
wondering about is what
Washington Report
By William
(cl United Feature Syndicate
THE CAPTAIN
Washington-President Ken
nedy has given notice to the
whole allied world that a new
American doc
i trine is emerg
ing amid the
e n a l ess per
p 1 e x ities of
the cold war.
Its substance
is that the
United States
simply does
not propose to
Wbii go on carry
ing the burden of responsibil
ity for all the West without
adequate authority to - dis
charge that respon,vility.
This Is not remotely a
threat to go it alone. It is,
however, plain warning that
while we will continue to give
every respect to the wishes of
our associates, there will be
at the Allied council table of
ultimate decision no nonsense
about precisely equal votes
for manifestly unequal part
ners. Cold war policy is not go
ing to be run on some inter
national Gallup poll. The
president, in fact, has now in
troduced into this troubled
area the principle of repre
sentative government. Fate
and circumstances have given
the United States the most
power and the most to lose,
and the other Western nations
have thankfully elected us
the leader.
11HESE unalterable facta
having given it leadership,
this country proposes to dis
charge the duties of that lead
ership. Happily, this will be
with the full consent of our
associates. If, unhappily, that
consent is not fully given, we
shall go on with our duties of
leadership all the same.
This is the sense of Mr.
Kennedy's historic statement
of purpose, at his recent press
conference, in our current
probing negotiations with the
Russians over Berlin. It was
made specifically in reply to
questions as to disagreements
on approach between us and
the West Germans.
But it applied equally
strongly to France, where
President Charles De Gaulle
has been so critical of our dip
lomacy. And it could apply
quite as well to Britain, which
has also often been a some
what querulous back seat
driver.
lVER since he came to of
fice. Mr. Kennedy has
spent endless concern in try
ing to keep everything tidy as
between us and the Germans,
us and the French and us and
the British. The British have
almost constantly urged him
to deal more readily with the
Russians than he has thought
wise. The Germans and
French have almost constant
ly urged him to act as though
there were no chance at all of
making any decent accommo
dation over Berlin.
The Germans and French
may well turn out right, as
the president has no hesita
tion in conceding Conceiv
ably, the British, too, may be
right though this, even aca
demically, is a much more du
changes may come when the
new National Assembly meets
for the first time next month
and the 3V4-year period of
martial law comes to an end.
Iberian Headache
Despite the spreading
strikes and student unrest in
Spain and Portugal, experi
enced Iberian experts do not
expect either the French or
Salazar regimes to be threat
ened seriously. It was pointed
out that both men have weath
ered worse storms in the past
without any loss of power.
Authorative reports reaching
London from Madrid and Lis
bon indicate the situation in
both countries is worrisome
but not considered dangerous
to the continued rule of both
leaders.
Car Prices
All signs Indicate that West
German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer will lose his fight
to get German car-makers to
rescind their recent price
boosts. The German auto-makers
have shown and are show
ing no sign they will back
down, even though Bonn
threatens to revise import du
ties on foreign cars. As a mat
ter of fact, such an import
duty reduction now appears
questionable. The Free Demo
cratic party which has five
members in Adenauer's Cab
inet has come out in oppo
sition to such action.
Chines Population
Red China, the world's most
populous nation, may be
thinking of trying a birth
control program again. The
Peiping regime began such a
program in the mid-1950s but
it dropped it quietly during
S. White
bious proposition. But the big
point is that both sets of view,
the British view and the
French-German view, cannot
possibly be right, all at once.
The President to now has
leaned as far as he could
without appeasement toward
the British opinion, in the
notion that talking, after all,
costs nothing and ought to be
tried to the last mile. Equal
ly, he has totally accepted the
bedrock French - German po
sition against any surrender
of any vital Western interest.
INEVITABLY, neither the
British side nor the French
German side has been really
satisfied. Still, there does
come a time when somebody
has got to be captain of the
team and when the captain
has got to call signals if any
kind of sensible game is go
ing to be played.
It is this time that the Pres
ident has now reached. This
is not to say simply that "his
Irish is up;" the position can
not be described in juvenile
cliches. But it is to say that
he knows absolutely who the
captain is and must be, and
has no slightest intention of
allowing the signals to become
so confused that the only pos
sible winner would be the
Russian team.
In this determination he
will undoubtedly be support
ed by all the United States of
America, no matter how many
of us may disagree with him
on one or a dozen merely do
mestic issues. No foreign
friend of ours should make
any mistake about this.
BEATS DRIVING
Leicester, England - (UPI) -Ron
Barlow, 22, has solved
his commuting problem by
running the seven miles to
work every morning in less
than 45 minutes.
He said it takes a bus-riding
neighbor just under an
hour.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
T) ESSIE MOORE tells of the Little Rock father who told
his 7-year-old son, "Floyd, I have a surprise for you.
The stork flew in last night and left a littlebrother for
you. wny aon't you
write your sister the
good news?" The boy
wrote as follows: "Dear
Sis: You owe me two
bucks. It's a boy."
a a
Herb Stein tells about a
parent with a sly sense of
humor who put a sign on
the back of his young hope
ful just learning to toddle
off by himself to kinder
garten. The sign read:
"Caution: Student Pedes
trian." Stein also offer a new
definition for alimony: bounty
Flying high above the Rockies one moming. an American Air- '
line Jet pilot got a laugh with this announcement over the loud
speaker: "We are flying at an
temperature outside is 41 degree
you suy Inside."
o "
"Middle age," opines Orson Falk, "is wh?n your narrow waist
and broad mind begin to change places."
O 1U, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed br Knt Features Syndicate
the days of the so-called crease of 15 million i year,
"great leap forward" and the Analysts say this and other
start of the people's com- signs indicate a birth control
munes later in that decade, plan may at least be in the
The Peiping regime gives its thinking stage for the Chinese
population figure as 6C0 mil- Reds, wth a national food
lion persons. But United Na-shortage a probably deten
tions estimates put it at about mining factor as to whether
720 million with an in- it will be implemented.
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippman is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports frem
Washington In his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
KHRUSCHEV
SAYS IT AGAIN
Washington - It would be
well if every American could
read the full text of the inter
view which Nikita Khrush
chev recently gave to Gardner
Cowles, editor of Look maga
zine, in his 40-foot, half
paneled office in the Kremlin.
It is worth reading not be
cause Mr, K. breaks new
ground, but because he
ploughs all the old ground so
unyieldingly. He makes it
clear that if there is to be any
easing, any accommodation,
on any aspect of any tension
anywhere in the cold war-the
concessions will have to come
from the West.
It was a three-hour inter
view, too lengthy to be pub
lished generally. Therefore, I
am going to extract Premier
Khrushchev's own words on
the crucial issue, the issues
which divide the world. Mr.
K.'s words usually have to be
translated a second time; that
is, after being put into Eng
lish, they have to be trans
lated into meaning. This is be
cause on such matters as self
determination, non - interfer
ence in other countries, "just
and unjust" wars, etc., he
masks his intentions.
MR.
K. ON WAR - "Corn-
victory not through war be
tween states ... we are
against aggressive wars. We
recognize the lawfulness of
national-liberation wars . . .
A national-liberation war is a
war waged when a nation,
which is oppressed by. the
colonists, takes up arms to
achieve iiberation."
HIS MEANING - To Mos
cow any non-Communist gov
ernment, which pursues poli
cies unsatisfactory to the
Kremlin, is automatically
dominated by "colonists" and
therefore any Communist
managed war against it is
"lawful." Examples: the Com
munist invasion of South Viet
nam, the Communist attack
on South Korea, the Com
munist war against Greece in
the late 'forties. Mr. Khrush
chev stands firmly against
war except when waged by
Communists.
MR. K. ON. INSPECTION
"Scientists have proved that
nuclear shots anywhere in the
world can be pinpointed by
the instruments we already
have. This is why those who
insisted on inspections un
wittingly expose themselves."
HIS MEANING - The truth
is that scientists have proved
no such thing. Instruments
disclose when there is an un
explained earth tremor. Only
on-site inspection can deter
mine whether it is nuclear or
natural.
M
R. K. ON SELF-DETER-
for non - interference in the
affairs of others. The people
of each country must decide
these questions" - that is, the
kind of economy and the kind
of government they want.
HIS MEANING - He means
just the opposite, because Mos
cow has practised just the op
posite. Wherever the Red
A-my was in control after the
war, the Kremlin imposed
Communist governments with
out permitting "the people to
decide these questions." Mr.
K. favors our non-interference
and his total interference.
on tha mutiny.
altitude of 32.000 feet and the
below lero. We suggest that
MR. K. ON BERLIN - "It
is the presence of Western
forces in West Berlin to which
we cannot agree."
HIS MEANING - No trans
lation needed. That's what he
means: we should get out of
West Berlin and leave the
city free for Communist con
quest. Mr. Cowles who, when he
tries, can be as bland as Mr.
Khrushchev, asked a beauti
ful question toward the end
of the interview. He said: "Mr.
Chairman, earlier in our con
versation you spoke of the
desirability of wars of libera
tion for the liberation ot
colonial peoples.- But cannot
a situation arise where it
would be necessary to wage
a liberative war for the lib
eration of the territory ot
some Communist country?"
Mr. K.'s reply to this unex
pected query can fairly be
summarized in five words:
"Mr. Cowles, yoii are con
fused." ' .
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harrii
. (c- Field Enterprises Inc.
THE RIGHT QUESTIONS.
In his fascinating new book,
"Dialogues With Mothers,"
(and with some fathers, too),
the author
sums up in a
sentence a les
son it takes
many of us a
1 i f e ti me to
learn. The
book is about
cniid rearing
j am. parent-
idling ana
Hams the author is
Bruno Bettelheim, head of the
Orthogenic School at the Uni
versity of Chicago, who prob
ably knows as much about
disturbed children (and dis
turbed parents) as anyone in
the country.
At the close of one of the
dialogues, a mother "remarks,
"I'm getting to the point
where all I have to consider
is that I'm going to ask you
a question and I immediately
know the answer."
And Dr. Bettelheim replies,
"That's right! Because the
answer is obvious once you've
learned how to analyze the
problem that is, to ask the
right questions."
To ask the right questions.
This profoundly simple, and
yet immensely elusive, task
is the main stumbling-block:
not merely in handling our
children, our wives and our
husbands, our business and
social relations but it is
also the chief obstacle to solv
ing any of the global prob
lems that are overwhelming:
us.
In all such matters, most
of us ask non-questions, and
we get non-answers. I call
them "non-questions" because
they really admit of no valid
answer. In child-rearing, for
instance, as Dr. Bettelheim
makes plain, ''How much dis
cipline should a child have?
is a non-question. There is no
satisfactory answer to it, be
cause the question itself hides
other and more basic . ques
tions beneath it.
It is interesting to see, in
the book, how the mothers
and fathers slowly change
from asking non-questions to
asking questions and as
soon as the right questions
are propounded, the answers
immediately offer themselves
UP-
When we stop asking, for
example, "How much disci
pline should I give my child?,'
and ask instead, "What sort
of person do I wan. my child
to be?" then the answer to
that question will determine
the answers to all the subsi
diary questions.
Broadening the field from
the family to the world, it be
comes obvious that such non
questions as "How can we
win the next war?" have .no
satisfactory answer. What we
must first ask ourselves is
"What kind of human society
do we want to have, and
what kind of persons do we
want to develop and encour-
! age in that society?" Unlike
these dialogues with mothers,
our dialogues wh each other,
land with the rest of the world,
1 never come to fips with the
I basic questions of human des-
tiny.