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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Juno 27, 1952 (Friday)
Civil Aeronautics board sets
hearings on proposed air serv
ice between Medford and
Klamath Falls.
Another banded pigeon is
found by a Medford resident
and has been placed with one
found at Merrick's Motor Inn
earlier.
20 YEARS AGO
June 27. 1942 (Saturday)
Fire of undetermined ori
gin destroys gymnasium of
St. Mary's school.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "The
Fourth of July next week will 1
be 'safe and sane.' lis safety I
and sanity is apt to be lone-
some with the rest of the
world everything else but."
30 YEARS AGO
June 27, 1932 (Monday)
General migration of Med
ford reside its to beaches and
mountains reported as no spe
cial Fourth of July observ
ance planned here.
H. Chandler Egan, Medford
golfer, defeats Eddie Hogan,
4 and 3, in Portland to win
Pacific Northwest Golf asso
ciation championship.
40 YEARS AGO
June 27, 1922 (Tuesday)
Southern Pacific's "Fourth
of July special train will oper
ate between Grants Pass and
Ashland, slopping at all way
points."
Several large grass and
brush fires reported in Table
Rnck and Ashland areas; no
forest fires "despite extreme
ly dry and hazardous condi
tions." 50 YEARS AGO
June 27, 1912 (Thursday)
First of expected 7.000
members of Elks lodge, start
passing through Medford by
train en route to national
Elks convention in Portland.
Medford resident uses shot
gun to drive off man who is
throwing rocks at his dog.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight ii excellent; five oi
six ii good.
1. Correct the following
"If anyone thinks so, they are
mistaken.'
2. How many parts of
speech are in the English lan
guage? 3. Was Jim Thorpe a noted
boxer, movie star, athlete or
Federal officer?
4. Complete the proverb:
"Marriages are made - - -."
5. What are goobers?
6. Who crossed through
what body of water, in Bibli
cal times, pursued by char
iois? 7. What Is the minimum
age for eligibility to the office
of President of the U.S.?
8. Did the Boer war take
place before, or after, the
American War Between the
States"
II. "Spud" is a nickname
fur what vegetable?
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Klieg lights.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 27, 1963!
Beginning On Pay TV
Pay television is going to have an impact on
the entertainment business that is only now be
inc realized.
Its effect on our personal lives our leisure
habits, our pleasure budgets eventually is al
most bound to be greater than the change ac
comnlished bv commercial TV.
Subscription television, as the Federal Com
munications Commission likes to have it called,
is almost definitely here
getting off to a much smaller start than had been
hoped for it. A three-year test authorized by
fCC begins m the Haruord, Lonn., area late
this month.
SUBSCRIBERS are charged a $10 installation
fcJ fee for a signal decoder, plus a 75 cent month-
v rental (the latter being waived until (Jet. 1).
Programs will be
about SI. Snecials mav
Pinto, RKO-General vicepresident in charge of
the Phonevision project,
over $2.
The joint RKO-Zenith Radio Corp. planning
for the test called for a base of 300 subscribers.
"Variety," however, reports that it is anticipated
that "the parlor payees will be much less than
that." Nevertheless, Pinto confidently predicts
that decoders will be placed in 4000 to 5000
homes this year.
DKO has $10 million to spend on the three
year trial. Thomas F. O'Neil, president of
RKO General, has said: "We expect to lose a
great deal of money
through.
The loss is being taken, of course, in anticipa
tion of huge eventual profits.
If the Hartford trial is anywhere near as
successful as a similar venture in the small Tor
onto suburb with the improbable name of Etobi
coke, RKO plans to spread its web rapidly to
other metropolitan centers. This, of course, is
granted that the FCC remains complaisant, and
this in turn means that the FCC will have to
resist powerful congressional pressure exerted in
response to the lobbying of theatre owners and
the operators of today's free networks.
DERHAPS the toughest opposition to pay TV
has come, logically enough, from the existing
commercial broadcasters. But they are now evi
dencing a readiness to move into the field. Any
other course would be playing ostrich.
With less than 1 per cent of the nation's tele
vision sets wired for subscription, the pay-to-see
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And that would mean a rapid siphoning off of
commercial viewers and
sponsored television as we know it.
IT WOULD probably also mean the end of the
atre exhibition of motion pictures, for pav
TV will have an insatiable appetite for film. It
probably will mean a shot-in-the-arm fbr the
legitimate theatre, which
magnified a thousandfold.
What it will mean for
can only be hazarded at this time. Certainly
greater choice of entertainment. But better enter
tainment? Not necessarily, if the history of the
movies, of radio, and of free television tells us
anything at all. E.R.R.
Status-of-Forces
No single issue is more likely to strain rela
tions between South Korea and the United States
in the coming months than disagreement over a
status-of-forces arrangement.
Lack of a status-of-forces agreement is re
garded by the Koreans as reflecting on their
sovereignty. 1 hey point out that the United States
has such agreements with NATO countries, also
with other countries in
tioned. Not only is South Korea jealous of its
judicial independence but its leaders remember
the old pre-World War II days when, under the
doctrine of "extraterritoriality," Asian nations
often lacked the right to try foreigners for of
fenses against their laws.
The Koreans were reminded of all these facts
when two U.S. army officers recently were repri
manded, fined $(i00, and suspended from com
mand functions for six months by a U. S. military
court for beating a Korean they caught stealing.
TTHEY said, it still is manifest that the United
States cannot enter into a status-of-forces ac
cord without elemental guarantees of fair treat
ment. The South Korean military junta now op
erates what amounts to a revolutionary court
system with only a thin veneer of legal precedent
or respectability.
Before resuming negotiations on a status-of-forces
pact the United States wants procedures
that will be consonant with the principle of equal
justice under law firmly established. To date, the
Seoul regime has balked at this condition.
Public opinion in the United States also must
be reckoned with. Considerable indignation was
aroused five years ago when U. S. authorities in
Japan surrendered Army Specialist ;? C William
S. (ii'rard to the Japanese for trial on manslaught
er charges. Af4er a hmg trial Chard was found
guilty in the shooting of a Japanese woman on
a firiibjr range and was uiven a three-year sus-
The light sentence undoubtedly played a part
l. Coiilmcss' decision
would have given U. S. authorities exclusive jur
isdiction over crime committeti) by American
troops stationed abro; J. E.K.R.
to stay, although it's
variously priced, mostly
cost up to M.bU, but jonn
says "Well rarely go
in seeing the project
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eventually the end of
will have its audience
the average set-holder
which its troops are sta
to (Iron legislation that
"Let's Put It This Way The Last Administra
tion Achieved A Scientific Breakthrough
In Alchemy"
COMMUNICATIONS
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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. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The tetters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary Is ofton
Step Toward Communism
To the Editor: I was shock
ed to learn, over the radio
yesterday, that the United
States Supreme Court has
outlawed praying in the
schools.
What's our country coming
to anyway? This is surely a
great step toward Commu
nism, it is actually violating
the laws of the Constitution.
The first amendment guar
antees us five freedoms: Free
dom of speech, assembly,
press, religion, and freedom
of petition.
Can we honestly call it
freedom of religion when chil
dren and teachers cannot
acknowledge the Lord in
school?
Another such example oc
curred at Christmas time.
In California, children were
not allowed to sing Christmas
Carols in school.
I will be a freshman at Cra
ter High next fall, and if a
Bible class were being offer
ed 1 would not hesitate to
enroll.
It surely would strengthen
our nation today if more time
were spent in prayer.
Vickie Farrell
55 Fifth St.
Central Point, Ore.
Tries His Will Power
To the Editor: ("I used my
God given will power." Sun
day, June 10-Mr. Ring)
My partner tried his own
will power in battling the
"Destroyer," cigarettes, and
his experience is worthy of
relating; also it was so like
my own up to a certain point.
I chided him for smoking
so heavy and told him my ex
perience; how I had, narrow
ly, escaped death and had
failed in my own strength to
overcome the habit, but that
Jesus had taken the craving
away in a single night when
I sought His help in prayer.
Bill seemed annoyed at my
frailty and declared that he
could quit them at any lime
he so desired, lie was smok
ing at the time and flipped
away the fag with the words
"Now I'm quit." I reserved
comment and decided to
watch.
On his next visit, throe
weeks later, he was not smok
ing. Mentally, I gave him a
pat on the back and acknowl
edged that he had something
that I never did possess. On
his next visit, some three
months had passed, he came
smoking. I challenged him at
once.
"Hill." I said. "You have
not quit smoking." "Now look.
J Jim, I did quit, didn't 1?" was
I his rejoiner and query.
I "You are not quit," I hns
; toned 1o inform him.
"Well." he said. "I got with
a bunch last night and one of
I 'em said, 'Have a cig. Bill,'
I I took it, but I can quit any
time."
1 After a short while Bill
decided he wanted to become
I a Christian. He could not
I imagine Christ smoking a
! cigarette so he decided to quit
smoking. He had the battle
of his life.
Me told me that at times he
felt like killing some one. His
wife suffered, during the bat
tle, atiout as much misery as
did Bill. He was hard to got
along with. She would pur-
chase cigarettes, pipes, to-
biicco and papers, and place
j them in convenient spots with
j In the cabin, lie would take
them out and grind them to
bits in the dirt or throw them
in the river. ,
lie finally won t lie victory
but slaved on his knees a hit
longer than would have been
necessary, I felt, ?,d he not
boasted quit so much about
his own strength.
Why not recognize ciga
rettes and tobacco for what
they are. poison, and a device
of Satan to destroy inai,
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the case.
who was created in the im
age of a loving, Heavenly,
Father.
James J. Williams
P.O. Box 441
Jacksonville, Ore.
To Set It Straight
To the Editor: Just to get
something straight in my
mind and of those who have
written, phoned and talked
to me about the sewer system
planned for Jacksonville.
I was asked questions about
the $3.50 per month being add
ed to our water bill, for the
sewer, and thinking that oth
er towns sold bonds to be paid
off later. I called the mayor
to set me straight. He in
formed me that the city was
so in debt they couldn't float
a bond and would use the
$3.50 to pay the engineers
and this money would be de
ducted from the sewer foot
age on our properties.
Then another news story
came out informing us that
we would be charged $2 per
month and it could not be
deducted, it would go into a
sinking fund. This would pay
for the mistake the council
made by starting the sewer
work with no funds and no
clear ideas of where it would
come from.
The first mistake was get
ting Medford water. We could
have had more for one-third
of the bond issued. We pay
$2.50 for 700 cubic feet and
20 cents for each additional
100 cubic feet where we used
to pay $1.75 for 1,000 cubic
feet and it was cold and good.
They kept saying they
wanted to get rid of the "old
fogies" on the council. Now
let the "old fogies" pat them
selves on the back as they
didn't do things this way.
Sure the town is made up
of old folks that have lived
here all their lives and own
their own homes. They try to
make ends meet on what little
pension they receive. When
they complained about the
extra charge they were told
to sign their homes over to
the county and let the county
support them and pay for the
sewer system.
1 don't know where they
think the county will get the
money to care for the old peo
1 pie, 1 don't think they meant
lit. and if they would look at
i the records they would see
how much the county docs
pav out without adding more.
The "old timers" have pride
and don't want to loose their
homes.
Bernice Janosky
P.O. Box 143
Jacksonville, Ore.
Noted Builder of
Skyscrapers Dies
Purchase, N.Y.-4TI Erwin
S. Wolfson, 60, noted sky-
scraper builder, died at his 'gram of legislation and Ad
home here Tuesday of cancer. I ministrative action to carry
Wolfson, chairman of the
board of Diesel Construction
Co.. one of the country's
largest building firms, was
largely responsible for the 59
story Pan American building
now under construction be
hind New York City's Grand
Central terminal.
A native of Cincinnati.
Wolfson came to New York
in lii2t and 111 years later
joined the firm he eventually
was to head.
He had numerous sky
scraper projects in other
cities, notably the $100 mil
lion Gateway Center office
complex in Chicago.
Wolfson is survived by his
wife, a son John, and a daugh
ter, Jane.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON
British Liberal Leader Talking About
Forming New Government If Party Wins
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In Great Britain these days,
Liberal party leader Jo Grim
mond is talking happily about
forming a
government if
his party wins
200 seats in
the House of
Commons i n
the next gen
eral elections.
L a bor party
leader Hugh
Gait skell is
challeng i n g
the government to hold gen
eral elections now instead of
waiting until late in 1963.
"I have little doubt that we
could win it," says Gaitskell.
And the Conservative party
of Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan glumly is prepar
ing for another in a series of
by-elections which have dem
onstrated a steady dwindling
of party popularity.
In view of the fact that the
once -great Liberal party of
Gladstone and Lloyd George
now holds but seven seats in
r:
GOP Could Improve Its Position
By Rallying Stockholders of U.S.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington -lUPli- The Re
publican party might improve
its minority position in the
United States
if the party
leadership had
the wit and
the ability to
rally the face
1 e s s millions
of American
stockholde r s.
There are as
many or more
owners of cor
porate securities in the United
States as there are members
of organized labor. The First
National City Bank of New
York reports that there are
9.6 million registered stock
holders of the 100 largest U.S.
manufacturing corporations.
General Motors stockholders
number 867,000.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(O New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
A NON-DEBATE
We have now had the first
round of the debate on eco
nomic policy: the President's
speech at Yale
and Gen. Eis
enhower's speech at the
R e p u blican
Congressional
fund- raising
dinner. Is it,
one wonders,
possible in a
campaign year
to have a ser
Lfppmann
ious debate? For it is evident
from the General's speech
that he does not intend to be
draw into the kind of debate
which the President asked for
at Yale. The General is not
going to dqbate the theory of
the balanced budget in rela
tion to recovery, recession,
and growth, and he will not
engage himself in the search
for a polky, approved by all,
which might rescue the Ad
ministration from the trouble
it is in.
Does this mean that it is
Utopian to think that in a
democracy like ours a great
national problem can be de
bated seriously and responsi
bly for the purpose of decid
ing the issues and arriving at
a consensus? I do not think it
is Utopian, even in a cam
paign year. For the President
has the necessary power to
bring about a constructive de
bate. But he cannot bring it
about bv expounding a theory
which may or may not be dis
cussed. He can bring it about
by posing an issue which has
to be decided, by taking a po
sition which can be opposed
or approved, but cannot be ig
nored. fliHE President's speech at
A Yale would be the open
ing round of a great debate
' if it were followed by a pro-
Open House Slated
At Finance Office
j Open house will be held in
the new offices of Pacific Fi
nance corporation Thursday,
! June 28. from 5:15 to 7:30
p.m., according to W, W.
, Randleman, manager.
i The new offices are looted
ial 130 Smith Central ave The
old location was 16 South
: Central ave.
I Furnishings in the office
represent an entirelv new
concept in credit office fa-
1 cilitics eRandlcman added that
the corporation has more than continuing to.reat Gen. i'.sen
offices in the United hower with unrequited mast
States and Canada. I naniir.i'y.
the House and has not par
ticipated in a British govern
ment since 1945, no one yet
is taking very seriously the
idea that they can win 200
seats.
Conservative Decline
Yet the fact that Grimmond
is not being laughed out of
the House also illustrates
what has been happening in
British politics.
In the House of Commons,
the Conservatives retain a
safe working margin of 365
to 250 for Labor, seven for
the Liberals and eight inde
pendents. But since 1959, the ConT
servatives are estimated to
have lost 17 per cent of the
vote, much of it to the resur
gent Liberals.
The Liberals also have
taken votes from Labor but
by a lower percentage esti
mated at one to two.
The Liberal upsurge is not
explainable by any very clear
ly outlined program presented
to British voters. The program
consists mainly of a conten
tion that whatever the gov
ernment is doing, they can do
The faceless millions who
have put their money in job
making U. S. industry have
another thing in common.
They are subject to a system
of double taxation by the
U. S. government that is not
imposed on others.
Dividend Taxation
Corporation income is taxed
as such at 52 per cent, where
after that part of it distributed
as dividends is taxed again as
income to the stockholder.
This unorganized minority of
American citizens takes it on
the chin in this way for lack
of political power to do other
wise. As an organized minor
ity of 15 million or so voters,
they probably could do better.
Stockholders are among
the savers, the citizens who
do not spend as much as they
earn, hut who bank or invest
their surplus, large or small.
It is their money that pro-
out its ideas. Without the pro
gram it is merely an over
ture, something to be played
while the audience are finding
their seats. The besetting vice
of popular debate is that it
runs so quickly to passionate
generalities and emotional
rhetoric, and the only remedy
for the vice is to make the
issue sharp, concrete, and de
cisive. Thus the Yale speech
would be an effective over
ture to a specific program, let
us say, to cut taxes this sum
mer thereby increasing the
budgetary deficit. But without
some such concrete proposal
the speech can be ignored as
Gen. Eisenhower ignored it.
There is a certain truth in
Gen. Eisenhower's charge that
the Administration is "floun
dering." The truth is that the
Administration has not yet
taken the decision which
would constitute a program
for prolonging the recovery,
postponing recession, and pro
moting the rate of growth.
The Administration is waiting
to see how sluggish is the
economy. It is struggling to
reconcile tile domestic need
for an expansionary policy
with the international threat
to the position of the dollar.
In other words, it is waiting
to see. Until it believes it
knows how to combine an ex
pansionary deficit in the do
mestic budget with a constric
tive deficit in the balance of
payments, the Administration,
because it does not know all
the answers, will be floun
dering. rpilERE is an old saying that
to govern is to choose, and
the President will have the de
bate he wants only when he
has made the choices which
give him a program. If. for ex
ample, he were to decide to
ask for a tax cut this summer,
tiie country will have some
thing more significant to talk
about than just how much Re
publican businessmen love
and how much they hate the
President and his family.
To have the confidence of
the opposition is a rare tiling.
It cannot be had by pleading
for it. It can be had. I suppose.
only when the conditions are
ripe, when events are favor-
able, and when the party in
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nanimuy aooui us anversary. ,
If that is approximately cor
rect, the President will best
re-establish a certain confi
dence - one must not expect j
miracles in a two-party sys-
tem - by stimulating business,
in spite of his critics, and by
better, and that the Conserva
tives are old and tired, un
able to provide dynamic lead
ership.
Primarily, British observ
ers say, the Liberal appeal
seems to consist of a desire
for new faces.
Hope for Split
At any rate, the Liberal
gains have encouraged Gait
skell and his fellow Laborites
to hope for a split vote and
Labor's return to power.
At present Macmillan is
hammering on two themes -Britain's
prosperity and low
unemployment, and the fruits
to be gained by entry into
the European Common Mar
ket. This is an event still by no
means certain and so far has
not proved itself a sufficiently
glamorous issue to fire British
voters with any wild enthu
siasm. Iia attitude of the voters
toward rising food costs under
the" common market and the
future of Britain's relations
with the commonwealth re
mains a Macmillan stumbling
block.
vides for expanded produc
tion in plant and tool facili
ties, the whole adding up to
jobs.
Double taxation of these
savers may be right and po
litically profitable, but the
savers are not required to like
it. Properly organized, they
might stop it. Properly or
ganized as voting conserva
tives, they might help lick the
Democratic left wing political
coalition born 30 years ago as
the New Deal.
Profit Minor Item
These savers seem not to be
overpaid for their investment
The First National City Bank
in its current news letter
broke down the expenditures
of the 100 largest U. S. manu
facturers. Their gross receipts
were nearly $138 billion.
Profit was about 6 per cent.
Their greatest expenditure
was 53.7 per cent of the gross
for goods and services, the
next, 26.7 per cent for wages,
salaries and employee bene
fits. Federal, state, local and
foreign taxes absorbed 8.4 per
cent of the gross, the federal
income tax alone taking 3.8
per cent, or $5.2 billion.
The stockholder-owners did
not do as well as the federal
tax collector. The 100 manu
facturers paid out in dividends
3.7 per cent of the gross, ap
proximately S5.1 billion. The
bank estimates there are more
stockholders than workers in
these corporations.
Nickle a Head
If stockholders could be or
ganized and be taxed five
cents a month for a political
fund as some union members
are taxed, the owner bloc
would become a political pow
erhouse. No such is likely, of
course. But there is no other
multi-million category of vot
ers lying around loose for the
conservative leaders to culti
vate. They might borrow some
words from Australia's Prime
Minister Robert G. Menzies
who said:
"I have a respect for the
rights of the top dog and no
use for the foolish doctrine of
equality between . . . the
frugal and the improvident."
The idea that the top dog's
rights deserve respect equal
to that accorded the rights of
all others seems to be fair and
reasonable.
Menzies was not talking of
privileges.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
T TAROLD ROSS, founder of the New Yorker Magazine,
J-A received a letter one morning from a famous short story
writer. Engraved on. the letter head were not only tha
author's name and ad
dress but laudatory
quotes from summaries
of the writer's work. Ross
stewed about this for a
week, then had some let
terheads of his own
printed just so he could
answer the famous short
story writer in similar
style. Ross had HIS
name and address en
graved on each sheet,
plus these two quoted
tributes to himself: 1.
"A splendid fellow"
Alexander Woollcott. 2.
"Among those present was
murder trial in the New York
A m(tlt ,lule gntUmm was having a hard t,n,c ,i ,?
. whether or ot to buy a poodle that had struck his fancv. H
i fmallv li the owner of the kennel. "At moments like :bi r.
r(.,y orl ,y own judgment. And
mv wile
From the notebooks of George Heister: A meddler i a p-V-, ,n
with an lnterferionty complex. . . . Nothing so needs retorn-.ir,
as other peoples' habits . . . Prejudice is one of our pie.i:---time-savers.
It enables us to form opinions without bor'-.erir.
to find out the facts. ... I never saw an athletic girl who thru
she was strong rnotieh Jo do any work in the kitchen. . . . T: -.-
best thing about the future in these tm-.es is that it only cnn..
one day at a time. , . . Men are like fires. They go when ;.r,
atunjed. o
C IWi t')' Bennett Cerf. DiiUibuUiI by Kir.r Fetiurcs S; n !:n'
Strictly
Persona!
By Sydney J. Ham's
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
THE CREATIVE MIND
Perhaps the most famous il
lustrated figures in the world
are the characters from "Al
ice in Wonderland" and
"Through the Looking-Glass."
Nobody can
1 imagine the
i Lewis Carroll
V. hnnlr. ,.,1,1.,.,..-
ii """"" miuui
J seeing in h i s
Vi mind the pic
j tures of t h a
1 Mad Hatter,
' ; the White
J Knight, t h e
i-a ueen
Harru and the rest
of that immortal crew.
Yet, when the books were
being published, Carroll ob
jected violently to the tpar
velous sketches that had been
drawn by Tenniel; he felt that
the pictures were contrary to
the spirit of the books.
Tenniel produced 92 draw
ings, of which Carroll liked
only one. The author and the
artist agreed on Humpty
Dumpty, and that was all.
Fortunately, for us, the pub
lisher insisted on keeping
Tenniel over the author's ob
jections. In the same way, Dickens
and Cruikshank disagreed
bitterly about the illustrations
for the former's novels. After
"Oliver Twist," Cruikshank
refused to do another book
by Dickens. And of the fron
tispiece picture to "Dombcy
and Son," Dickens wrote:
"I cannot say what pain
and vexation it is to be so
utterly .misrepresented. I
would cheeriuuy have giv
en a hundred pounds to
have kept this illustration
out of the book."
Likewise, the collabora
tion between Gilbert and
Sullivan was a mulualiy
unhappy one, worsening
through the years. Sullivan
felt that his music deserved
more lofty lyrics, and' Gil
bert felt that his wit and
style were cramped by Sul
livan's melodies.
Eventually, each found
another collaborator more
to his taste - but not to any.
one else's. Without each
other, both Gilbert and
Sullivan were dismal fail
ures in the operetta field.
Only their collaborative
ventures are still played
and remembered. ,
...
The creative mind is a pas
sionately individualistic one.
It does not work well in tan
dem. Writers object to their
illustrators. Playwrights curse
directors and actors. Com
posers feel traduced by con
ductors and their orchestras.
Painters resent everybody
else, including members of
their own "school."
It is well for us to under
stand that this is. not a .mat
ter of vanity or egoeentricity.
It is, rather, a narrow focus of
vision which enables the
artist to persist in his ardu
ous task. A creative man who
is not single - tracked about
his work cannot meet its
rigorous demands. To be
broadminded, to see all sides,
to accept the spirit of com
promise, may be a political
and social virtue: but it, is
artistic suicide. The artist's
total self-involvement is -the
price we have to pay for his
talent.
Harold Ross" Account of i
Journal.
in my jndt-ment, I'd bettrr
ass
Ross ',":'f,l
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