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I ItoFORDiWrKIBUKI "EveTyontTln Southern Oregon Reads The Mll Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday'by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fir Jt.. Ph. 772-61 1 ROBERT W RUHI.. Editor m.TIB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bui. Mir. ERIC W ALLEN. JR . Mni Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tele. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALEERICKSON. Circulation Mgr; An Independent Newapaper Entered aa second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy lie Daily and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday fi mos 8 on Dailv and Sunday 3 mot 4 25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord. Ashland. Central Point. E a jt I e Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor route Daily and Sunday I year IR no . Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrlei and Dealers Copy 10c All Terma Cash In Advance "nfflelal Paner of City of Mrdford Olflrlal Paper of Jackson County United Proas International Full Leased Wire U P I raephoto Newspictures "member or audit bureau OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOCI. ATES. Offices In New York. Chi raso Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. Denver. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd SO years ago.. June 7, 1952 (Saeurday) Widespread damage to nogue valley agriculeutrel crops was reported this morn ing following an unprece dented cold snap last night. Frank Swacki, Jackson county juvenile officer since September, 1950, has sub mitted his resignation. 20 YEARS AGO June 7, 1942 (Sunday) Navy announcement reveals' loss of aircraft carrier Lex ington at battle of Midway; Chief G. E. Pattersonn, former Medford recruiting officer, aboard ship. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Snnn It will be Father's day, and also one of the two longest days in the year. All of the days seem the longest to him, (time Dads say." nil YEARS AGO June 7, 1932 (Tuesday) Medford American Legion post presents gold watch to George Harrington as the most outstanding athlete in the high school, senior class. Jackson County Game Pro tective association requests , donations of more bantam hens to hatch pheasant eggs at state pheasant farm here. 40 YEARS AGO June 7. 1922 (Wednesday) " Medford auto accessories store offers automobile tiros! regularly costing $90iio for j $68.20 each at "great bargain nle." Local men's store advertises shirts for 9R cents, hals for 98 cents and suits for $12.45. ho YEARS AGO June 7. 1917 (Thursday) Local man arrives from Klamath Falls to Medford by way of Crater lake on horse back; predicts "machines will howl along this summer on the road being built by the convicts'' from Union Creek to the lake. From the Local and Per sonal column: Members of the Mrdford city council are plan ning an inspection trip lo Kish waiVX "hea?,;;!0" for of ture. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten carreer ! superior; seven er eight it escellent; five Ol tlx It good. , 1. Is the Commonwealth of Australia composed of Slates or Provinces? 2. To which country do the Azores Islands belong? .1. With what university do n.n,iLinir (11,- llrtllll' HI Woodrow Wilson? 4. What is the largest spe cies of amphibious reptiles? 5. What colloquial or slang term is applied in Canada to French Canadians' What does the Latin term ad valorem mean? 7. Which has the larger area, York Pennsylvania New 8. In 1916 Ihe stale militia w mobilized for d i y where? R. What river flows for 1765 miles through Alaska? 10. What fuel lias been widely used in rural Ireland? Answers: 1. Slates, 2. Port ....i 4 n ; . a r ii i , 4, r i uiiv lull , biut-u-j riilM. 5. Canuck. B. Accord ing lo alue. 7. New York Stale. A. Mexican border, 0. The Yukon. 10. Peat. THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 196) Why Medicare? Why,' it is asked,, should the King-Anderson bill for . medical care under social security be passed when so many older people "don't need it"? Well, here is part of the answer. In her most recent news letter, Senator Maurine Neuberger reports these facts : 1. The Census Bureau reports 4fl per cent of fam ilies whose head of household is over 65 have assets convertible into cash of less than $200. 2. More than half the aged living alone or with non-relatives have money Income of less than $1,000 a year. ' 3. Forty-three per cent of the people BS or older are chronically ill. ' 4. Between 1950 and 1960 average hospital charges . more. than doubled. ! 5. The average daily hospital charge is now almost $35. 6. The very recent cost-of-living index rise shows the greatest increase in medical costs and services. COR many millions of our older people, one serious illness is the difference between a'dip nified and self-supporting old age, and a dreary existence on charity or welfare. For- many millions of younger people, a se rious illness of their parents means the differ ence between college or no-college for their chil dren. For nearly 30 years, the social security system has made! old age easier and more comfortable and more dignified than The King-Anderson of this philosophy and cal employment of the powers of government as defined by Abraham Lincoln to do for the peo ple what they cannot do, or do as well, for them selves. E.A. ' NeVer Surrender! Men! 'Arise! Wake 'up and fight! They're after you! ; We refer, obviously, to an item which ap peared oh the' Women's Page (of all sneaky places) of the j Mail Tribune the other day. It was a UPI story from Atlantic City, and it began this way: "Tuck in the waist line, .men, there's a one-button jacket in the immediate future . . . 'The American Envoy Model' is on the way . . . and it's termed the forerunner of a new trend in men's clothing style. "The American Envoy calls for a one-button square shouldered jacket, fitted to curve in at the waist and out at the hips. The trousers will be plain front with one-quarter top pockets and plain bottoms instead of cuffs recommended . . . (It) will be known by its French simplicity of line and style effect, as evident by the neat, double-piped pockets and plain unvented back . . ," A LL these years we have taken comfort in the fnt't. that, tho Ampvicpn tnalo uma rmt f 1 i L-o v... .... v.. the female) a slave to fashion. He wore a suit, or slacks and jacket, and gradually was winning his way to the right to wear open-neck sports shirts in the summer. What changes in his gradually. And sensibly. And without gushy Ohs editors." And if a man year-old double-breasted t; -e t i , . i - x nlS " 1Ie W 011 lcl leC 11111 1 J Are these great freedoms to vanish at the whim of some Fancy, Dan fashion designer? Are we headed back to the days of Reau Rrummel? - THIS is the time to recall the rillivin.r words of 1 . . ., . "..,. a Tatrick 1 lenry (' Liberty or death !") a Com-1 modore Dowev ( Damn a General McAuliffe ("Nuts!!") This is the time to recall Winston Churchill's f 1 n I ovm In i f in- Pi v.-i f r i n linnili o Pi vU 1 r i- ,n vi-i iiiuidtufii iw l il;iiu Mil me streets, tight in the nelrts, and never give up. He also uttered the memorable phrase, which we herewith adapt for our own, "This is arrant nonsense up with which I will not put." SNiirrnndni? Mnvnrl i on have nothing to lose but your tucked-in waistlines, one-button jackets and plain bottoms. E.A. Political Interpretation Richard Nixon won " "u "cimi i fiiuii'iy r. way) was the face that his margin over Assem blyman Shell was less than two to one a strong indication that Nixon is hardly the unanimous choice of California !epublieans, for whatever reason. The San Francisco Chronicle's pixyish col umnist, Art lloppe, writing RIOKORE the'eleclion, analyzed the results. The outcome was decided, said the prescient Mr. Ilopne, when Mr. Shell commented that the " ,,lln lurch Issue beclouded the election, and "should be tossed out like a batch of unwanted kittens." THIS infuriated cat - lovers, j Rut on the other hand, it happy. And he went into i. '.. !i. .... i .... i ,UH i""iiii"K "l and ns relationship to urhan or rural surround ings. He wound up saying: "So there you have it. Mr. Kuril's firm stands stirrer! up the animals, but the appealing solutions he proposed were perhaps overly .simple The merits of this campaign strategy were spelled out in Tues day's vote. Whatever it was." This is splendid political interpretation, su perior, even, to the columnist who wrote an ad vance story in 1!IS explaining why Dewey beat, Truman. E.A. ever before in histoiy. pill is a logical extension practice. It is also a logi attire there were came And without undue fuss. and Ahs from "fashion wanted to wear a five- suit, he could do so (if, the torpedoes . . . ), or LUC ui. cil IIV.il, 1 IJi, 1 1 L t 11 Men of America arise! the Republican nomi- California, as expected piTieti toy many, any lloppe explains, made cat - haters intrimfo Hnt:it sw In .i i. ,:. . , t:. cai - nailiig ie was .spin, "Sometime I Get A Little Tired Of Thii Pari" 4-1 ra Communications Letters lo 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 riqht to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The eers printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in faci. the contrary is often the case. More Funl To the Editor, and Friends: Stage coach station, a log cabin at the north edge of Jacksonville, held an opening the second of June. Anyone who didn't get there to enjoy the fine parade, games, con tests, the hanging, tricks, cats and old time music just do not know how much pleasure they missed. There were saddle horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, stage coach and hay rides. There was a nice little Saanon goat leading a boy in the parade: the boy was hard to lead. A real clown, too. The east side of Jackson Creek resembled a county fairground; cotton candy and all its acco mpan iments. Sights? There were SOME! I'm still laughing. Even In dians were there to help keep the scenery colorful. Over 600 guests registered in ihe little country store, , but there were hundreds of those who stayed outside.' Old Sol failed us In the af ternoon and many ran for shelter in their cars and the several old buildings, for though the showers were in tcrmiltent they were very wet. . . , The rain let up so they did have the evening songs around the campfire. Credit is due Mr. and Mrs. George McUnc, Shorty Mill iard and Dick Carter for let ting tourists, as well as the na tives, know that Jacksonville Is no "ghost town." We haven't had so much fun since Adam had pups, and if I had known that Trussel was going lo snap my picture, I'd have put my teeth in. Bye now, be seeing yuh. Pearl Spackman, . . Jacksonville, Ore. The Nature of Debate To the Editor: Anyone who engages in public discussion, whether from a lecturer s ros trum, debate platform, even a pulpit or the forum of a news paper's letters columns (and I have shared them all), must he prepared to receive both ac claim and denunciation, tl also have been on the receiv ing end of both, but long ago learned not to take either too seriously.) The recent elections offered many examples of this among aspirants to public office and their supporters, and advo cates or opponents of public issues. High school debaters also know well that even their best forensic thrusts inevit ably invite and receive coun-ter-thrusls. It is of the nature of debate. to take issue with an op ponent's arguments is in no sense an attack upon his char acter, integrity or reputation (except in the relatively few instances when demagogs, lacking real issues or data to support litem, sloop to such base tactics in their efforts to win support for ' themselves; or among the totahtarians, lo whom all opposition is a per sonal offrnse not to he tol erated). These observations are promptiM by the rather irrele vant responses in the MT of 6 5 by Mesrs .lames K. Shaf er and David Smith, also Mrs. David (.'. Bnals and Mrs. Rita Shogven. of 6 6. to my pdscmcnt n( truth concerning tion restricted, and requiring letter of 6 3 commenting i n,s ,,,1,11,. destroyer .You left ! a ffe. Most visitors to the upon one by our junior high j with some good advice but 1 area have expressed appreci school friend. John Casterline, no remedy. iation that such facilities and in the issue of 5 26. My experience may help services are available to them It has not heen my pleasure someone to escape the toils ! at such a reasonable amount, lo meet John personally, as I of phvsical wreckage. Here it usually averaging less than 2.1 have so many other fine young people of our local schools, rejecter1 by army, age 31 (to llowcver, I have mi doubt he baccn heart 1. package, p.i k merils the compliments paid ! age and a half per day. IV him by his friends. That : cidrd to quit or die; going In is beside Ihe point. II docs not die anyway. Body organs, all follow that we are obliged to seemed In tail. Would not agree on the nialtcr at issue, smoke. Decided to try whiskey namely, mrdiraie tinder So- as a shmulant. No whiskey clal Security. , in Washington Sia'r. nor in Anyone convrtsant tilt (he 1 MEDFOHD subject and having read John's recent letter, could not help noting the similarity between many of his state ments and those' of current AMA propaganda against medicare. Indeed, some of thoss statements seem to have been lifted right out of AMA leaflets I have received. This particular exercise appears to reveal more of John's skill in gathering and organizing his material rather than his abil ity in original composition.' If John is as good a debater as some Medford students I have heard, he should be in terested to test his compe tence in taking the affirma tive on medicare. He. would find some MT editorials use ful in such an endeavor, es pecially that masterful one in the 651 issue. Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford . ' Sut .Speaks Again , ; ' To the Editor: and dear friends in' Southwest Medford: Here's ole Sut pultin' in agin'. If they's anything I hale, hits a smart alec, and we got 'em in our family too. Mostly on the wife's (Babe) side of the house tho. Last week her sister and brolhern- law stopped by to see us on their way to the World's Fair and natural they staid all nite. The iijxt mornin' Al, that's Babe's brothernlaw, 'come over to where I was standin' on a nail keg nailin' up a ceiling joist. Al, he stood and looked around a while and dreckly he says . . "Fer pete sake, Sut", he says, "don't you have a level or a square or even a miter box, and what in the evcr-lovin-heck are you doing .with that yard stick nailed on a board?" Then he looked around al the neighbors' next door. The mister was painlin' the house and his missus was sprayin her flowers. The folks on the far side of me was pultin' up a rack for their roses and mowin' the lawn. Al, he kept lookin' around and purty soon he says, "Sut ain't you asham ed of yourself for clutterin up such a nice neighborhood like this? You. know you couldn't get away with this kind of buildin' back home no more." "Wal," I said, "Jest why do you reckon I moved away from there and settled out here?" Al looked kind of sick and kicked a board. "You mean," he says "That you are allowed to build a house with no foundation, no provision for plumbing, no safety regu lations for electric wiring and and no flue?" "Yep," I answer- Jed. "Nobody, but nobody can push me around and tell me wnat o go ana wnat no, ,o when they ain't any." "What do your neighbors think about all this?" he ast ! me. "I don't know and 1 rare I less." I said. "If they don't like it they can always buy trie out." Love to all Sut I Real name on file) Medford Temples of the Spirit To the Editor: Your article. "The Noxious (But Lovely) Weed" April 8, was outstand ing and tinirlv in acknnwl- is. Bccan smoking, age 14, Oicgnti. Armistice I g n ri. j MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, In Dusty, Follow Peaceful Pursuits in Neutrality By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Vientiane, Laos UPU Life is leisurely in Vientiane, and in its dusty streets there is no hint that this is a cen ter of world tensions. Along its two main streets, pedicab. driv ers lean into their handle fa a r s, towing passengers on Kewsom - errands which have no urgency, and in their open-front shops Vietnamese, Thai or Chinese merchants flick their mops in a tolerant war against the dust which drifts over floors, counters and merchandise. Coconut palms rustling In the hot wind, the brilliant red blossoms of the flame trees and the neat,, high - peaked white stucco houses of former French' colonial administra tors create the atmosphere of California, Mecca for imbib ers beckoned. Had mined and prospected in the vicinity of Hornbrook on two different occasions and was acquainted there. Old friends seemed to enjoy my exuberance and joined me in activities. One evening a gentleman said to me, "Come on, Jim, have a cigarette," and do you know, I took It; then I had two habits, killers both. Oh! the weakness, the frailty of me. That is the way it wound up when I tried to quit them in my own power. But allow me to say when I took my troubles to Jesus the result was different. I knelt down beside my bed and requested Him to 'take away the craving for tobacco and' cigarettes and that is exactly what He did for me in a single night. Praise His Name. The Power is in His Name. Our bodies, are -the temple of His Spirit. He wants us healthy, and .well. Three other men have tried this pro cess, to my knowledge, and have been absolutely cured. Try it. If at any time you are again tempted, ask at once for the strength. "We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Eph. 6:12.) James J. Williams 203 G St. Jacksonville, Ore. Regulations Explained To the Editor: We were very sorry to read in June 6 Communications that there are still misunderstandings re garding the use regulations in effect at The Howard Prairie Recreation Area. We will try and explain here, in brief, such regulations as are in ef fect. Anyone, at any time, is welcome to make a direct in quiry for information at the store at Howard Prairie, or at our store in Medford. The central parking, launching, and picnic area are open free to public daytime use. The two campgrounds north and south of the central area have been set up specifically for overnight camping. They are prominently identified as follows: "Camping Area, $1 per car per day, please secure permit at the store." These areas provide to the users of the areas modern rest rooms, picnic tables, fire places, fuel and water. The contract between Jackson county and ourselves requires that we provide complete maintenance and supervision of the area on a 24 hour per , Da,S , Thp fnnds , provitp M,ch maintenance and service come from the users of the area at the rate of SI per car. We pay the county a per centage of those funds to re tire the capital investment by the county. When the posted signs are ignored, our person nel are required to follow up on such users of the area and issue them a permit. This is a cosily and annoying proce dure for both parties. There are over 22 miles of shoreline open for bank fish ermen, with the improved camping areas the only por cents per person per' day and night. The same reaction has been registered regarding the quality, cleanliness, and ac ccssibilily of i'iic boats that we rent plus the personal service rendered at our Hock. Let everyone who did not attend "the open to Ihe pub lic'' planning and negotiating sessions W illi the park com- (t4 OREGON Leisurely Vientiane, a colonial city at the turn of the century. They add to tha illusion of a people living in a more peaceful, less urgent time. Nor is it an illusion, for the Laotians are a people to whom urgency is foreign, whether it be in work or war. In contrast to the terrorism which occasionally breaks out in Saigon and is a way of life in Algiers, there is none of that' here. If there are Pathct Lao in Vientiane, they come only as Laotians, perhaps only to pur chase small transistor radios, which are favorite equipment among the guerrillas. Hotel room doors are left unlocked, for thievery is not a sin of the Laotians. - . The United States has little to show for its $300 million Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann ' .' (Cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate These seem to be PROB LEM DAYS in the news. Astronaut Carpenter re ports that when he was whiz zing around the earth out there in space his candy melt ed and his cookies crumbled. The candy problem is sim ple enough. Candy melts when it gets hot, and the temperatures in Carpenter's capsule ran as high as 105. The cookie problem is more complicated. The cookies ap parently j u st DISINTE GRATED. ' THE cookie problem has two of our gigantic corpora tions stumped. They admit they don't know what caused the crumbling. They are awaiting further reports from the government on just what happened. But, they say, they stand ready to push research on the subject to the hilt. One of their experts, how ever, makes it plan that it will be more a patriotic labor of love than any urge for profits; He adds: "We don't expect food for astronauts to become a big volume item at least very soon." (tARPENTER himself is ob ' viously a pragmatist. He says the cookie snacks were contained in an OPAQUE bag and he thinks at least they ought to.be put in a TRANS PARENT sack "so that a fel low can see the crumbs and take steps to keep Ihem from falling out. on the floor." pROBLEM No. 2: T A while back, some of our carpet manufacturers got into trouble. They were being un dersold on certain types by Belgian manufacturers. So we DOUBLED THE TARIFF on these types of Belgian carpets. In retaliation, the European Common Market, of which Belgium is a member, an nounces that it will increase mission, the county court, and ourselves, be assured that the taxpayer and citizens of this area were ably represented, thoroughly protected, and the recipients of a most favorable contract. Bob Johnston Johnston Stores Medford. Zest for Life 'lo the Editor: No one re ceives more or less of time each day. We all get the same amount and are not rewarded with more lime or punished for wasting the commodity. How the years slip by, and we sit around wishfully think ing we will "do something" wnen we find enough time. We not only get into ruts, we get dangerously content in those mires. In time we for get we ever had dreams and ideals we wanted to accom plish. Imagine the wasted tal ents lying dormant waiting and waiting for the "time'' to be perfect for germination. We're all too afraid of failure and never just jump in and try out our talents. Right now 1 am young and have three pre-school children with a fourth supposedly due tomorrow. My dream is to try to help each child find and know himself for his fu ture happiness. Books are an important part of each of their and my days. From them we learn how to grow worms, to how to listen to music. If my daughter grows up thinking a spotless house is the most important thing, or my son thinks his 8 to 5 job and paycheck is it, then I will feel embarrassed for them, and our country. While accomplishing house hold tasks I reflect on my reading and the work goes faster. The more we reflect or think, the more reasonable and effective we will become. Hence happiness, accomplish ment of our dreams and id.-a.s. will result. Imagine waking up wilh a rst for life when thai alarm rings. Mrs Janirs Anderson Route 3, Box 61 Medford. investment in Laos. Open sew ers run along Vientiane's streets and the city has no water supply. Buildings still show the scars of machinegun and mortar fire which erupt ed in the coup of 1960, de posing neutralist Souvanna Phouma and installing Prince Boun Oum. ' But to the people of Laos these, no more than the com munism which threatens to engulf their country by force, are matters of small concern. Of more concern is the new fountain which the govern ment has built in the center of the sun-baked city square. When it is running in the eve ning, they gather by the score to watch the play of the water. By nature the Laotian is a neutral. duties as much as 100 per cent on five classes of Ameri can products that enter into competition with Belgian products. The point is that hiking tariffs is a game that two can play. WHAT can we do about it? If we do nothing but hike tariffs, we'll soon reach the point where we'll have to depend wholly on our own DOMESTIC markct-and there are already signs that our capacity to produce is begin ning to exceed our capacity to consume at existing prices the products of our domestic industry. Getting o u r production costs down to the point where we can sell in competition with foreign producers is be ginning to look like one of our BIG problems. 1 riiHAT brings up automation. -- Is it the wicked ogre who will destroy us? Or is it the friend in need who will SAVE US? ONE more problem: On a main highway in Georgia, A. Edward Smith, GOP candidate for governor of Georgia, is killed in an auto crash. Patrol authorities report that his car CROSSED THE CENTER LINE and crashed into an approaching truck. ' .' The problem: How are we to keep drivers from crossing-at places where they shouldn't-the center line in the highway-that narrow strip that SEPARATES LIFE FROM DEATH? Aufo Industry Sets Sales Record Detroit - IIIPD The auto in dustry set a 79-month -sales record in May, wilh purchases averaging one new car every two seconds, Ward's reports said today. - The statistical agency said May sales totaled 656,837 units. This gave Ihe industry its third 600.000 sales month in a row, with May volume alone the best for any month since 657.500 retailed in Sep tember, 1955. General Motors look 58.1 per cent of the May auto mar ket, eclipsing their high mark for 1962 of 57.4 per cent set in February. Ford Motor Co.'s share was 26.1 per cent, Chrysler's 8 6 per cent, Amer ican Motors' 6.2 per cent and Studebaker's 1 per cent. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A BOARD a luxury liner bound from Le Havre to New n York. one elderly first-class passenger was boasting to a chance acquaintance of comparable vintage, about a won derful new watering spot he had discovered m Austria. "I don't know what chemical qualities the water there con tains," he declared, "but I do know it's guaran teed lo take twenty years off of anybody's life." When the acquaintance registered acutej skeptic ism, the elderly gentle man produced his clinch ing argument. "You'll be lieve me," he crowed, "when I tell you of my own experience there, I arrived with a beautiful female friend who was 13 yea.s old and in three days she disappeared!" How can you nay you're lonesome?" snothM a nmther to a 3-year-old who didn't like to go to sleep in the dark. "Tou'rei really not alone t all. God is with you. and you have your twa favonte dolis right in bed besiie you." "I know," sobbd the) little girt, "but I want somebody with skin on their face." A mousey littlf man was hauled into court for beating up his wife a formidable, Amazonian creature. The judge. trH,"f to conceal a certain amount of admiration, demanded, ''Whit ca-n over you?" The little man explained, "Well, Your Honor, she) had her hack to me. the fire poker was handy, ani the beck Joo was open. So I took a chance: ; C 1X3. or Beuetl Ctrl Cutribuud b Kisg Laotians When Phoumi or Boun Oum speak of a war to the death against communism or accuse) the United States of deserting them, the Laotian couldn't care less. Let the Indians, the Thal. or the Chinese become the merchants and let others fight the wars. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris lc- Nelrt Fnterprlse Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The blending of opposite.! is usually the best course for the body politic, as it is foe the body physical, but the) hardest to achieve; yet we can see its value In medicine) where, if we require radical surgery, we put ourselves into the hands of a conservative surgeon. What a woman really wants Is a man who is sturdy, self-reliant, inde pendent, courageous, domi nating - and will obey her slightest whim. Speaking of the Inanity of most lectures, as I was yes terday, reminded me of Am brose Bierce's tart definition of a lecturer as "a man with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear, and his faith in your patience." We have not passed that subtle line between child hood and adulthood until we move from ihe passive voice to the active voice -that is, until we have stop ped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." The most common way of committing suicide is not by violence, but by inertia; not by shooting or stabbing one self suddenly, but by stunning oneself over a long period. Every cosmic problem has its microcosmic equiv alent: when we ask why the world continues to have wars when most people don't want wars., we must ask ourselves why millions of us continue to puff at cigarets when we know that smoking is bad for us, and might be fatal. A university should more) properly be called a "multi-versity'-because instead of trying to unify and coordinate) human knowledge, It splits it into a hundred subjects, each filled with specialists who know little, if anything, about the relationship o their sub ject to others. It is the basic delusion of young people that they are going to live forever, but that at the same time they are never going to grow old, or be as decrepit as their grandparents; and thus it is impossible to dis cuss the passage of time ra tionally wilh youngsters. If our latter-day Puritans really knew how to read Shakespeare, they would scream for his plays and poems lo be stricken from tha nation's libraries, because of the vast amounts of "obscen ity" in them. (For evidence, consult Eric Partridge's learn ed work, "Shakespeare's Bawdry. ) The most beautiful and attractively groomed and costumed woman in ihe world is unappealing if her mouth is hard, her eyes are sullen, and her expression is bored or greedy-as is so often the case. Laughter runs tha longest gamut of any human emotion! from innocent joy to the) coarsest cruelty. 1 GoN CS9
