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History from tha files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40
tnd 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May IS. 1952 (Thursday)
Mayor D. L. Flynn ind oth
er city official! today reported
that the city's decision to re
main on itandard time has
met with a widespread favor
able response.
Thunderheads which rose to
more than 20,000 feet during
the early part of the after
noon were seeded by planes
yesterday to prevent hall from
falling on pear orchards of
the valley.
20 YEARS AGO
May 15. 1942 (Friday)
Lt. Robert G. Eminent,
Medford, listed among air
force pilots taking part in
Doollttle's bombing raid on
Tokyo.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Sugar
rationing regulations have not
hit full speed. They are taking
their sweet time about It."
30 YEARS AGO
May 15, 1(32 (Sunday)
Amelia Earhart takes off
from Nova Scotia in attempt
to be first woman to make
solo flight across Atlantic
ocean. '
Don Faber, Central Point,
named Ashland High school
athletic coach following his
graduation from Willamette
university,
40 YEARS AGO
May 13. 1922 (Monday)
Rudolph Valentino arrested
In Los Angeles on bigamy
charge following marriage In
Mcxicali.
Applegate residents vole 2B
In 21 to continue operation of
high school In that area.
SO YEARS AGO
May 15, 1912 (Tuesday)
More than ISO baseball fans
take special train from Cen
tral Point to Grants Pass to
witness game between teams
representing two towns.
Medford resident displays
solid gold nugget weighing 30
ounces and valued at J5BJ.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ar Ian cottsct h luaeriet;
aaven ar sifht Is ascallanl; fire ai
sis is food.
1. Professional football
games run 5 minutes longer
than do college games; true
or false?
2. Does a fast pitched base
ball travel to the catcher's
mitt In about 310 of a sec.
ond. 1 second, or three tec
onds?
3. What was the first U.S.
rcgulsr coin to bear a por
trait of a real person?
4. What surname it borne
by the largest number of fam
ilies in the U. S.?
5. Sunflower Slate is the
nickname of which State of
the Union?
6. Edmonton is the capital
city of which Province of
Canada?
7. Who wrote "The Cricket
on the Hearth"?
8. Do fish have vocal
chords?
9. Complete the saying:
"The hand that rocks the cradle-"
10. To what colors are par
tially color blind persons most
frequently Insensitive?
Answers! 1. Falsa. 2. 310
of a second. 3. Lincoln penny.
4. Smith. 5. Xansas. I. Alber
ta. 7. Charles Dlckans. . No.
9. , . . rules tha world." 10.
Red and preen.
I
TUESDAY. MAfT I. 19SI
Toward Independence
. t?
One of the most conservative ,pewspapeiedi
tors in Oregon is Giles French, crusty and out
spoken edit of the weekly Sherman County
Journal in the little town of Moro.
Sherman county this Friday will vote on a
Home Rule Charter. It is not exactly the same as
the one which will be voted on here this Friday,
but is very similar.
Here is what French has to say about it:
"There has been but little discussion of the pro
posed county charter . . .
"The details of the charter seem unimportant to
us. Like charters being voted on in other counties,
such details can be changed right here In the county
when desired. Without a charter we are subject to
state laws that cannot be changed except during leg
islative sessions and seldom then because of a lack of
representation for small counties.
"It may be said that this county has no govern
ment. Certainly It has no right to make laws. The
county court is an administrative body with control
of nothing but some aspects of the road program.
Under a charter system, charter counties would soon
acquire control over many aspects of county affairs
like herd -laws, grazing districts, weed control, along
with the right to make legislation regarding Its own
internal management.
"Adoption of a county charier would be a step
toward independence."
X7E CANNOT, of course, say that "there has
been but little discussion of the proposed
charter in Jackson county.
It has, as a matter of fact, become the most
controversial thing on the ballot, in the eyes of
many. Frankly, we're a little puzzled as to why
this is so, and why the discussioh has not been
confined to the merits of the proposal, rather than
dragging in wild-eyed allegations of "socialism"
(a flat falsehood under
of the word) or even
ridiculous on the face of
Be that as it may, we
calm analysis of the Sherman county charter. And
this from a man who is a bitter foe of big govern
ment, high taxes, government spending, the wel
fare state, and so on and so on. E.A.
On Partisanship
Incidentally, apropos of a letter in the Corrv
munications column today, we don't believe that
anyone has ever advocated the elimination of
politics from county government.
What has been advocated by some, including
this writer, is the elimination of partisan poli
tics, wherein the structure of the two political
parties tends to muddy up local issues by injecting
partisan rivalry into matters which should be de
bated on their merits.
There are some areas of public life which
should be insulated as much as possible from the
pulling and hauling of politics, as defined as the
art and practice of government, but county gov
ernment certainly is not
a e
DOLITICS is the very essence of self-govern-
ment, and in state and national affairs, where
broad matters of policy are to be decided, the two-
n system is the best one yet devised,
ut on a county level, where road building,
irrigation, sewers, water, police and fire protec
tion, parks and recreation,
but important matters are
only confuses things.
If nothine else, the
Rule Charter proves one thing: People ARE in
terested in their local government. Which is a
good thing. E.A.
New G.O.P. Star
One of the more interesting political figures
to come onto the Oregon scene recently is a pro
fessor of speech at Oregon State University by the
name of Harold Livingston, rh. D.
His advent is, in some ways, reminiscent of
that of Wayne L. Morse,
law school at the University of Oregon prior to
entering the political arena.
Dr. Livingston was
for the Republican nomination for U.b. senator
He is opposing Sig Unander and Edwin R. Dumo,
and other lesser-known
objective reading of the
give him less of a chance
better-known candidates, he has succeeded in
creating quite a splash upstate.
UIS home-town paper, the Corvallis Gazette
Times, a staunchy conservative G.O.P. paper,
is supporting him. So is
Herald, likewise conservative Republican.
He has been mentioned favorably by the Port-
t I 1 I 1 a a 1 1 a 1
iana papers, ana eyea wun mieresi oy omers.
Some rather acute political observers declare
that he would have a better chance of defeating
Senator Morse in the fall than either Unander or
Durno, inasmuch as he is aggressive, articulate
and politically attractive. His big problem, they
say, is the lack of name-familiarity at this stage,
and the wider reputations of the other two.
CDITOR Charles A. Sprague of the Salem
Statesman comments:.
"Livingston has flashed bright in the political sky
because as a professor of speech, he is a gifted speaker
he Is eager to debate Morse . . He's a comer
whose talents are sorely needed by Republicans, who
have not been as articukl-" as the Democrats."
With this sort of attention, gathered after
only a few weeks of limited campaigning, one
gathers that Livingston will be a name to be
reckoned with in time.
Even if defeated yi the primary (as he may
well be), here is a new star in the Oregon G.O.P.
firmament which will be heard of more in the
future. E.A.
any competent definition
"communism" which is
it.
rather like Giles French's
one of them.
and similar mundane
at issue, partisanship
debate over the Home
who was dean of the
a last-minute candidate
candidates. While any
current situation would
than either of the other
the Albany Democratic-
Dob n is the, Menace
' Gee, haveut ya ever hearo a
Communications
EDITOR'S NOTE
A laitar in Monday's
Communication column,
signed by M. F. Robinson,
Box IB, Talent, statesi "Tha
State Police have said that
Horn Rule gWes too much
power to too few people. I
think lhay are not only
right, but that they ara in a
position to know what tha
dangers ara."
Capt. Paul Morgan, com
manding officer of tha Ore
gon State Police in tha Mad
ford district, today pointed
out that this statement was
ma da without authority
from tha state police, and
that lt is incorrect, inas
much as the department
takes no part In such po
litical issues.
Why The Opposition?
To the Editor: Considering
the opposition to Home Rule,
first one must look for the
spark, namely the majority
of county candidates and their
followers, who will not admit
the good in the Charter be
cause it does not serve their
selfish interests. Of course
they want to retain these
county offices as elective
plums to scramble for each
election year.
Were the county depart
ments manned with tempor
ary help, as the department
heads are now, how efficient
would they be? A successful
business does not hire tem
porary help of uncertain
ability for the key Jobs.
They want someone that
knows what he is doing, and
Is Interested in the future of
the business. Take a long
hard look at the array of
county candidate and see If
you don't think a change is
needed.
Of those opposing the
Charter we have three dis
tinct groups:
(1) The people that are
against any change at any
time regardless of need or
benefit:
(2) The people thai have a
chance of personal gain
through maintaining the coun
ty elective offices as they are
now;
(3) The people that have
listened to the objections of
the opposition and not approv
ing of a section or portion
thereof. In the Charter, and
have condemned it as a whole,
without admitting that am
ple provision is made tor
change and revision as it's
found to be needed, and ap
proved by the majority of
voters.
For those swayed by the
orations against Home Rule, I
ask, did anyone ever present
the whole truth when half
truths would serve them bet
ter? You will have to decide
the answer for yourselves.
Read and study the charter
carefully, and think well be
fore voting no on Home Rule.
Remember, should this instru
ment for county government
be voted down, we WILL
have state controlled county
planning and loning, over
which we will have no alter
native.
No charter ever written
will be perfect and suit every
body, but we do need the pro
tection of our local rights of
fered by this charter, and the
committee Is to be commend
ed for Its diligent work.
Adopting the non-partisan
charter will not endanger our
party system, any more than
the Judiciary branch of our
government being non parti
san has harmed It.
A vote FOR this charter Is
a vote for our whole economy.
with efficient and effective
county government.
Margarite Pole.
Star Rte. Box 20,
Shady Cove. Ore.
Politics
To the Editor: You grossly
misrepresent (editorially MT
5-13-82) the position of many
who oppose the County Home
Rule Charter because of Its
similarity with the "Metro"
system. You call their ob
jections silly and ridicule) is.
but this hardly qualifies as
refutation. Perhaps, in fact,
thunce rstorm before, Joey?
you cannot refute them.
It has been your policy to
rail against people you term
extreme, hysterical, suspi
cious of change, etc., without
offering to explain or clarify.
Perhaps if you were less ex
treme in your criticism and
more reasonable in your own
suspicion of these people, the
charter or a charter could be
approved.
We could then hope to
eliminate some of the more
inoperative characteristics of
the present three-headed hy
dra known as the county
court.
"Counly government must
be non-partisan" is a theme
of the proponents of the pres
ent charter. "Politics must be
kept out of the Court House
and out of county govern
ment," we are told. Yet, what
are these people doing with
their organization (Citizens
committee), their letters to
the communications column,
their presentations before
public groups and other
clubs? Why they are simply
practicing POLITICS! They
must believe the charter will
eliminate politics and this
helps to confirm my position
that a government under the
proposed charter could carry
out many functions without
the participation, consent, of
the electorate; for such par
ticipation of people in the
working of their government
is POLITICS, and the suppor-
ers of the charter want poli
tics removed- from county
government. (?)
If the voters do not accept
the charter I sincerely hope
the election will not be the
end of the effort to improve
county government in Jack
son county. The County Home
Rule Study Committee has
demonstrated great perserver
ance and proved by example
they were willing to work
for what they thought was
best.
I can only continue to dis
agree with them on important
issues; but they have had an
extraordinary effect on me
and I wish to thank them.
Robert J. Howard
828B West 14th st.
Medford.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In Florida, a candidate for
the state Public Utilities Com
mission challenges a news
paper's right to endorse a
political candidate. He asks
for a grand jury investiga
tion of newspaper endorse
ments of his opponent, and
cites a Florida election law
which states that "no COR
PORATION whatsoever shall
contribute directly or Indirect
ly anything of value to pro
mote or defeat the candidacy
of any person."
He bases his challenge on
this statement: "Since virtual
ly all newspapers are incor
porated, the question is
whether a new spaper endorse
ment is 'anything of value'."
HE RAISES an interesting
question. Let's put the
answer to it like this:
If a newspaper's endorse
ment (of a candidate or a
measure to be voted on by the
people) has any value, it is
because the readers of the
newspaper have confidence
In the INTEGRITY of the
newspaper making the en
dorsement. If lis readers have no con
fidence in the newspaper's in
tegrity, its endorsement of
candidates and measures will
have NO value. That's about
the long and the short of it.
IHAT brings up an Interest
ing episode in our history.
Opposition In and out of
congress to the Constitution,
in that it was not sufficiently
explicit as to INDIVIDUAL
and slate rights, led to an
attfeement to submit to the
people immediately after the
adoption of the Constitution
a number of safrguarding
amendments. Twelve amend
ments were submitted. Two
I
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Communism's Sin, Thinking for Oneself,
Pursues Milovan Djilas Through Prison
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In a courtroom located In
an old three-story building
beside a church in Commu
nist Belgrade,
handsome,
graying man
with burning
eyes played
out a familiar
role. For Mil-
IV-. I ovan Djilas,
I convicted o f
iVl J revealing gov
ern m ent se
Nawiona crets, c o nvic
tion meant that he would
spend another nine years of
his life in prison.
Djilas Is Yugoslav commu
nism's great dissenter. His
written criticisms of Yugoslav
and Soviet communism have
made him a more familiar
figure to the West than when
he served as Marshal Tito's
closest friend and vice presi
dent of Yugoslavia.
The charges which brought
about his one-day trial and
conviction, were described
only in the vaguest terms but
they sprang from his new
book, "Conversations with
Stalin."
The Yugoslav party news
paper Borba in which Djilas
once wrote as a trusted trans
lator of Communist theory,
accused him of writing the
book "with the intent and
purpose of being one of the
instruments in the cold war."
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
let United Featur
Syndicate
BAD NEWS FROM BRITAIN
Washington-Political mod
eration is on the way out in
Britain, and this is very bad
news for tne
United Slates.
The conserva
tives are suf
fering defeat
after defeat
in local elec
tions by left
w 1 n g candi
dates from
vvhti me L,aDor ana
Liberal parties. The cold
omens coldly mount: Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan s
conservative government it
self will surely be repudiated
in the next national election
unless tired old ""Super Mac"
can bring forth yet another
from the long pocketful of
miracles which have thus far
sustained his regime.
The national election can
come no later than 1964-our
next presidential year. It
could come much earlier. It
could come any time Macmil
lan's increasingly large and
emboldened opposition should
find itself able to carry mo
tion of no-confidence in par
liament. IN THE strict and narrow
sense, all this is the busi
ness of the British. But the
implications are immense for
us here in the United States.
For Macmillan Is the very
symbol of a middle-road phi
losophy which is far closer to
our own dominant national
philosophy than the British
Labor party - which will be
the winner if Macmillan loses
JENKINS
failed of
necessary
The two
do with
ratification by the
number of states.
that failed had to
apportionment of
representatives and
sation of members.
compen-
rpHE ten amendments that
A were adopted have come
to be popularly known as the
Bill of Rights. The first of
these ten amendments reads:
"Congress shall make no
law respecting the establish
ment of religion, or prohibit
ing the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of
speech OR OF THE PRESS;
or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble and to
petition the government for
a redress of grievances."
Which is to say:
Our Founding Fathers had
confidence in the ability of
the people to judge for them
selves as to the INTEGRITY
of the press.
A THOUGHT in conclusion:
The despots who have
arisen in recent years to de
stroy the liberties of the peo
ple and to take Into their
own hands supreme and des
potic power-the Lenins, the
Stalins. the Mussolinis. the
Hitlers, the Mao Tse-tungs,
and so on-have paid ample
tribute to the importance of
a free press in preserving
the liberties of the people.
About the first act of these
despots, upon coming into
possession of supreme power,
has been to DESTROY the
free press and to set up In
its placj a press-newspapers,
magazines, radio, television,
etc. - operated by heel-dogs
and yes-men who will do the
bidding of the despot.
There is nothing a despot
fears as much as a FREE
press.
ti-
For the dedicated Djilas it
was an old story.
In 19S3 he was regarded
as one of the most outstand
ing of Yugoslavia's young
leaders and the most likely
heir to Tito.
But in that year also he'
wrote a series of articles
which suggested that the
Matter of Fact y j.
lc New York Herald
"ALL MUST BE LEARNED"
Bonn - "All must be learn
ed." Bitterness, nostalgia for an
other time.
the irony that
is one of Kon
r a d Aden
auer's trade
marks, even a
kind of self-
m o c k e r y,
which is very
much less
c haracteristic
Aliop
-all these
could be detected, inter-min
gled and in conflict, in the
strange single sentence. The
Chancellor spoke with doom
like finality, almost as though
he were pronouncing an epi
taph. Thus he replied to the ques
tion, whether "communica
tions had completely broken
down" between the German
and American governments.
The question was prefaced by
a reference to the unfailing
intimacy, the unquestioning
trust which formerly prevail
ed. When the Chancellor an
swered with those four words,
he was in fact admitting a to
tal breakdown of German
A m e r 1 can communications;
and the manner of his admis
sion was in truth a kind of
epitaph on the close partner
ship of the past.
e
ONLY a little while after
the meeting at which this
admission was so grimly of
fered, the word came through
that U. S. Ambassador Wal
ter Dowling had requested a
meeting with the Chancellor
to present a personal message
from the President. That fact
alone was enough to revive
in England-could ever be.
Labor's top leader, Hugh
Gaitskell, is himself a per
fectly sensible and responsi
ble man. But he is constantly
pressed by a powerful left
wing. These are authentically
and hot-eyed socialistic, where
he is only nominally so. And
they are deeply attracted by
cold-war neutralism, not to
mention a good deal of deep
down anti-A mericanism,
though these are in no way
his own feelings.
If we think here that Mac
millan's government has been
too ready to propose overly
hopeful approaches to the So
viet Union-as some of us do
we won't have seen anything
yet until Labor comes to pow
er in London.
e
GAITSKELL as Prime Min
ister would do his best to
uphold a policy of strength
in the Western Alliance. But
while giving him full marks
for his intentions, it is un
realistic to suppose that he
could altogether check the
ban-the-bombers and all the
rest who would come to
power along with him.
Allied high policy would
surely be put into at least
some degree of disarray. And,
almost as bad, the growth of
the highly unattractive New
Britain which has emerged
from World War II would be
sadly accelerated. This is the
Britain typified by the angry
young men of literature, by
scorn for the good as well as
the bad of the past, by a new
form of class hatred.
Not the least of Macmil
lan's achievements has been
to check with tact and toler
ance the decline of the old
Britain in the emergence of
this new and grasping and
largely mannerless Britain.
He knew the old had to go;
he has only tried very hard
to preserve what was good
in it for so long as he could.
HIS patience at this melan
choly task of presiding
over the liquidation of the
kind of Britain Churchill
knew-while the United States
in its wisdom presided over
the liquidation of the last
of Britain's colonial power
has been a memorable thing.
It has been moving, too. to
all who have had the privi
lege of knowing the Prime
Minister-and who are un
lucky enough still to value
the traditions of a gallant
gentility of the past.
It will be doubly said when
Macmillan goes: for more
than Macmillan will be going.
Going, too, and perhaps for
ever, will be an England of
half-fond, half - exasperating
memory. That England was
arrogant, but also had the
courage of a special nobility.
That England was complacent,
but also was enduringly faith
ful to freedom and honor.
That England muddled and
fuddled languidly in any
peace-time, but died with un
exampled bravery and "good
taste'' in any and every war.
Communist party no longer
was essential to the final vie
tory of socialism He had be
come influenced by Western
thought, particularly that of
the British Labor party
For that ain, he was strip
ped of his government and
party positions
In 1955, he declared that
Joseph Alsof)
Tribune Syndicate
hope of better things to come.
Furthermore, throughout the
whole course of a very long
interview, the aged but still
Incisive Chancellor kept re
turning to the theme that any
emphasis on Western differ
ences would only aid the
cause of the enemies of the
West.
For both these reasons, all
details of this talk with Ade
nauer were off the record,
except the single, inescapable
admission that German-American
communication had been
almost wholly interrupted, at
least for a while. Only one
other specific point may be
touched upon, because it is
common knowledge in lonn.
After the famous Bonn leak
of the American proposals for
a Berlin bargain, Secretary
of State Dean Rusk sent Ger
man Foreign Minister Ger
hard Schroeder a telegram
of protest whose violence of
language was only exceeded
by the self-righteousness of its
tone. Foreign Minister Schroe
der returned a relatively mild
answer, but when Chancellor
Adenauer saw the Rusk mes
sage, he all but declared it
inadmissible and non-received.
The Rusk message left a
deep wound, which will take
long in healing.
a
THE incident needs to be
known, because it reveals
so much. The Kennedy admin
istration bristles with bril
liant men, but none of them
has rebuilt a broken nation,
or has taken the lead in re
storing a vigorous political
life among the ruins of a vi
cious past, or has served as
the co-architect of a grand
alliance. Whatever his faults
may be, these are Chancellor
Adenauer's accomplishments.
President Kennedy himself
still remembers and respects
them but a good many of his
subordinates do not. And this
is both bad style and bad pol
itics. After a decent respect, what
else is wanting to restore a
visible German-American re
lationship? The answer can
be given In a single phrase
a rapid renewal of the for
mer intimacy and frankness.
There is no use entering
here into the lunacies of the
Americans or the follies of
the Germans In the miserable
period which culminated in
Chancellor Adenauer's explo
sive press conference in Ber
lin. The essential point is that
real intimacy and frankness
have been wholly lacking
from the start.
There can be no intimacy
and frankness, of course, if
Washington increasingly
echoes the British line (so
reminiscent of the old line
about those bothersome
Czechs) that the Germans are
selfish and unreasonable be
cause they allow vital nation
al interests to influence their
judgment of the Berlin prob
lem.
rpHERE can be no intimacy
- and frankness, either, un
less Washington insists that
the Germans must share the
responsibility, either for a
Berlin settlement or for the
risks arising from the ab
sence of a settlement. Duck
ing this responsibility has
been the basic German fault,
just as failing to insist upon
the German responsibility has
been the major American tac
tical error.
After what has passed, of
course, it will be very diffi
cult indeed for the govern
ments of John F. Kennedy
and Konrad Adenauer to re
store the old German-American
relationship. They will al
most have to begin all over
again, as if they were meeting
one another for the first time,
so to say.
Yet when I left the long.
high, cool room with the view
over the Rhine, where the
Chancellor customarily re
ceived visitors. 1 felt far more
hope than when I entered.
Judging by his Berlin press
conference, it seemed that
the Chancellor had already
abandoned the ancient German-American
partnership in
favor of the new Franco-German
partnership. It seemed in
fact that the voice of the U.S.
had ceased to count for any-'
thing, in the very place where
the U. S. voice used to count
the most.
But this, one may now be
sure, is incorrect. Much harm
has been done tei the German
American relationship, but no
harm has been done that is
past remedying by wise ef
fort. Insteaa) of counting
grievances, the Washington
policy-makers d better be
gin (jounting the cost of nat
making such an ftort.
the heavy hand of Communist
bureaucracy had halter Yugo
slav progress toward democ
racy. For that he received a
year and a half suspended
prison sentence.
Then came the greatest de
fection. In 1956 he wrote:
"The revolution in Hungary
means the beginning of tha
end of communism gener
ally." A three-year prison sen
tence followed, but in the
very next year came "The
New Class" which continued
Djilas' indictment of commu
nism and added seven mora
years to his prison term.
When Yugoslavia released
him from prison in January,
1961, he promised to refrain
from activities which would
bring him into conflict with
the nation's law. In April, as
result of his new book he was
arrested again under a law
passed only a month before.
To a warning that return
to prison impended, he is sup
posed to have replied:
"Do what you will. I writs
what I have to write."
The last eight years of
Djilas' life have marked a
sharp change in this idealistic
man who as a youth served
a prison term as a revolution
ary and who fought for com
munism as determinedly as he)
now criticizes it.
Djilas' sin Is that he de
mands the right to think for
himself.
In the Communist book,
it
is a cardinal sin.
Strictly
Personal
- By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Ine.
INSULARITY
Not long ago, I served aJ
the moderator of a panel dis
cussion sponsored by the local
society of ar
ch i t ects. It
was part of an
all day con
ference on the
problems, of
urban living.
What distin
guished this
session from
so many oth
Barns ers was hat
the participants were not only
architects, but also city plan
ners, housing officials, land
economists, designers, build
ers, developers, and mortgage
bankers.
This sort of cross-pollination
is badly needed in every
profession. Too often, mem
bers of a profession (or busi
ness, or craft) spend most of
their time talking at one an
other, mutually stroking their
egos, or emitting futile com
plaints, which nobody really
listens too.
So many trade conferences,
professional convention, and
assemblages are a colossal
waste of time for all involv
ed exactly because there is
no effective communication
between the group and rela
ted groups. The different
stands, for instance, taken by
the American Medical Asso
ciation and the American Hos
pital Association indicate tha
lack of understanding be
tween groups even in closely
related fields.
In some colleges and univer
sities, there is now arising a
movement often called "in
terdisciplinary studies." All
this formidable phrase means
is that you don't really know
your subject if you know only
your subject - that a real
grasp of one's subject involves
knowing how it relates to oth
er subjects and how they all
fit together to make a sensi
ble whole.
Architects sometimes give
the impression of caring lit
tle about the places and pur
poses of the building they con
struct. Planners often seem to
think more of geometry than
of people. Developers and
mortgage bankers tend to
think of "value" exclusively
in terms of money. Yet it is
impossible to have a flourish
ing and stable community un
less all these factors are ju
diciously balanced and sensi
bly inter-related.
This insularity reminds ma
of a story I heard many years
ago about the three men who
were arguing the merits of
their respective professions -a
doctor, an architect, and an
economist.
"Mine is the most venera
ble of professions." exclaimed
the doctor. "It's obviously
the oldest - in the Bible, Eva
is created from a rib of Adam,
which was the first surgical
operation."
"Thai's nothing." retorted
the architect. "Long before
that, in the Book of Genesis,
it says that 'order was brought
out of chaos.' An architectur
al feat, of courses
The economist merely
smiled and inquired bltejc.
"But, gentlemen. w do you
think was responsible for tha"
chaos?"
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