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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot Trig
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 28, 1952 (Saturday)
The St. Mary's school build
ing's 44-year service as a high
school and convent is soon to
end; permit taken io demolish
building.
Collision between a horse
and trailer on Crater Lake
highway causes rider to be
hospitalized for minor inju
ries. 20 YEARS AGO
Juna 28. 1942 (Sunday)
Medford School Superin
tendent E. H. Hedrlck named
to state school group's war
emergency committee.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Mer
maids and mermen of the city
flocking In the Applcgale and
lniptiinR themselves therein.
30 YEAR SA GO
June 28, 1932 (Tuaiday)
Carrie Jacobs Bond, com
poser of "The End of a Per
fect Day," and "I Love You
Truly," visits in Medford.
Permits issued by city build
ing department valued at $3,
595 during June, up $580
from previous year.
40 YEARS AGO
June 28, 1922 (Wednesday)
Petitions asking for recall
of Jackson county sheriff filed
with county clerk along with
petitions for the nomination
of D. M. Lowe torun for the
office.
50 YEARS AGO
June 28, 1912 (Friday)
. Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company sells plans in
Medford, Jacksonville, Cen
tral Point, Gold Hill and
Rogue River to Home Tele
phone company of Medford
for undisclosed sum.
A. J. Edwards wins fea
tured 30-mile, automobile race
here with time of 52.44 min
utes; description of race run
by cur finishing in second
place says "His engine gut
hot and his radialur went dry
but on and on he went, fight
ing gamely to hold his place,
until he lost a tire. Then a
quick change was made and
he got back in time to finish
in second place."
What's Your I.Q.7
?4ina or ten correct il superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
lis. it good.
1. Name the Chairman of
the Republican National Com
mittee. 2. In a crap game, when
the caster's point is 4, what
is it called?
3. According to the Biblical
account, what sort of wood
was used In building Noah's
Ark?
4. Docs light travel more
slowly throuRh glass than
through air?
5. What rank is next below
Lieutenant General in Hie
United Slates Army
Which came first in med -
Dractlcc. vaccinatum or
ical practice
anaesthesia?
TO
7. what famous naval ves-jWiii consider American concessions mai go pari
sei was nicknamed - old iron.!xv.,y toward meeting the needs of a new United
"'d8.S'can a person go longer States-Panamanian relationship.
without food or without , .....
,lrFp? , . . : .u. IPIHAIU and Kennedy, for example, already
chandise Mart?
10. What sort of commod
ities have a warp and a woof?
Answers: 1. Beprntativ
William E. Milltr. 2. Little
Jo. 3. Gopher wood. 4. No.
5. Major General. 6. Vaccina
tion, 7. Th frigl Constitu
tion. 8, Food. 9. Chicago. 10.
Textiles.
Historic Vote In Algeria
The vote in Algeria is the most important in
the history of the French possession though the
outcome has never been in doubt. The ballots
come in two colors, white for Oui, or (in Arabic)
Kab-el, or (in Kabyle) Kag-lah in any event
Yes and rose for Non. Few rose colored bal
lots will be cast.
About four million voters are expected to turn
out at the fioOO polling stations throughout Al
geria. The six legally approved parties includ
ing Communist and Socialist parties literally ex
ported from metropolitan France all call for
a Yes vote.
On the eve of the election, authorities were
having difficulty finding attendants for the 70
voting stations in European Algiers. It seemed
possible that there would be no voting in the
European section of Oran, and 'virtually all elec
toral lists had been destroyed in Bone.
The Secret Army Organization (OAS), oddly
enough, disdained to form a political party. There
is no all-European party, which De Gaulle has
said he regrets.
TPHE outlook in Algeria is not completely pre-
dictable, although certain guidelines have
been set out. A declaration of independence will
follow the referendum, probably in five days.
Full authority will not be assumed until the
election of an Algerian assembly and the forma
tion of a government, sometime after July.
Meantime, the country will be governed by a
transitional executive council. This is no collec
tion of Moslem Beni-Oui-Oui's (yes men). It is
dominated by the Front de la Liberation Na
tional (FLN). Only three of its 12 members are
Europeans.
The French army will stay in Algeria, in spite
of what the OAS has been telling the Europeans.
(There has, however, been an unseemly anxiety
to escape on the part of the European police.)
Within a year's time the army will be phased
down to the level of 80,000 provided in the Evian
agreements of March 18.'
MEANTIME, the heavily fortified frontiers
with Tunisia and Morocco will be opened.
And the guerrilla FLN army, intact in its willayas
or regional commands, will gradually be brought
into the country.
A great outburst of
from the Moslems. But there could be recrimina
tions and revenge. Already Moslem soldiers who
served in the French army harkis have been
tortured and killed. More than half of Algeria s
Jews have left the country.
Inasmuch as many of these were deeply in
volved in OAS terrorism, their departure is at
tributed to panic. The official Moslem attitude
i toward Europeans who
ment of June l.i: "Jnrlay the Algerian people
hold out their hand to you and offer you, without
passion, association with
The OAb, or part of
earth program. Europeans leaving Algeria are
offered 20 litres (5 gallons) of gasoline to burn
all their furniture and possessions.
THE outlook in France is even more specula-
tive. OAS is telling the departing Europeans
to continue "the real revolution in the homeland.
France is receiving the pieds noirs (black feet,
or Europeans born in Algeria) at the rate of 9,000
a day.
It is providing housing and allowances for
them, but metropolitan France is not everywhere
well disposed toward them. The absorption of
the ex-settlers into the French community will
be at the very least a chancy process. E.R.R.
Canal Zone Negotiations
1'erscverance is more prevailing than vio
lence; and many things
come when they are together, yield themselves
im iulii.il t-jl-on little. Kv littln " "
1 n . , ' . i
t nis ooservauon oy me uitok moralist t m
tarch is being applied to good purpose by the
United States and Panama in trying to iron out
"points of dissatisfaction" in provisions of the
Panama Canal treaty. Talks between representa
tives of the two countries are scheduled to start
soon, based on an agreement reached by Presi
dent Kennedy and Panamanian President Rober
to F. Chiari, during Chiari's visit to Washington.
THEIR joint commimioue acknowledged that
the "two friendly nations are
provisions wn.cn are noi limy sausiactory in one
of the parties in this case Panama.
What Panama wanted was renegotiation of
the 1955 Panama Canal treaty, which actually
, . . - , . . '
1-1.
was me second revision
the United States "in
construct, operate, and
canal, plus jurisdiction
Canal one.
Immediate revision of the 1!),"),") treaty is out
of the question; revision can hardly be under-
! t;,(in mUj ,,lans for ;,
.... , . ' ,
i tinner siiuiy are compioieti. mu me negotiators
have found a basis
standing problems: the flying of Panamanian
flags in the Zone; encouragement of greater
Panamanian sales to the Zone ; equal labor oppor
tunities and wages for Panamanians employed
by the U.S. canal company; withholding of in
come taxes of non-American workers on behalf
of Panama. E.R.R.
jubilation is expected
set forth in the Y LN state
their effort to rebuild.
it, continues its scorched
which cannot be over
, i ' -. i ,. , n1
bound by treaty
... ,i , . ,
oi a iim.t accord giving
perpetuity" the right to
maintain
over the
the isthmian
10-mile-wide
new sca-lfVCl canal 11 OW
. , , ., ...
for solution of four out'
"You Don't Understand
What Is Right And
Matter of Fact
to New York Herald
THE ODDS IN THE STRAIT
Washington The Presi
dent is keeping his own coun
sel about the threatened cri
sis in the For
mosa Strait.
But il is now
clear that his
highest advis
o r s in the
State and De
fense Depart
ments favor
the most vig
o r o u s re
sponse, even
AUnp
including the use of Ameri
can military power, to any
Communist attack on the off
shore islands.
After greatly strengthening
their forces in the Formosa
Strait coastal areas, the Chi
nese Communists have now
made their first public com
ment on the threatened crisis.
This long article, disseminat
ed by the official news agen
cy, contains nothing but a
rather shrill warning against
an attempted return to the
mainland by Chiang Kai-shek.
Thus it reinforces the argu
ment that the Communist
troop movements have a de
fensive motive. No light what
ever is cast, unhappily, on the
much more imporlanl ques
tion, whether ihe Communist
defense includes a spoiling
attack on the exposed Nation
alist positions on Quemny Is
land, only five miles off the
coast.
see
AS THIS question is still
entirely open, the practi
cal factors of the new prob
lem in the Formosa Strait de
serve careful thought. The
political factors can be brief
ly summarized.
On the one hand. Ihe
President voted in the Senate
against inclusion of the off
shore islands in the Formosa
defense treaty, and question
ed tile military need to hold
these islands during the cam
paign. On the other hand -and
fiir more important the
general political situation in
Asia is still exceedingly frag
ile. Passive U. S. toleration
of a successful Communist
aggression in the Formosa
Strait will therefore spread
dismay and demoralization in
every friendly and uncommit
ted Asian nation.
The Asian
repercussions
.win he exceedingly dangcr-
i"s - Bl the feedback into
the Berlin crisis will he even
more dangerous, if anything.
For an argument is plainly
going on in Moscow about
the degree of U. S. resolution
to defend Berlin. If we are
not ready to stand up and he
counted on the offshore is-1
lands, where the situation is '
favorable to us. Russian lead-1
lis like Marshal Malinovsky
will automatically infer lhat '.
we cannot possibly be ready
to stand up and he counted
! nl Berlin, where the local
situation is most unfavorable.'
,,.,. mihl ,iU.tors whrn
: 1 .im-fuiiy studied, are seen
j to he more complex than thej
1 i'"1;''' ';' The- situation-
! in the Strait is favorable to
us. hut it is hy no means Ihe
same as in 19!S8, when thej
last Communist attack on
Quemny was successfully re
pulsed To liemn with, a quite dif
ferent kind of Communist at
tack has to be anticipated, if
such an attack indeed devel
ops In 19S8. Peking expected
Quemoy In fall at the first
trumpet blast, like the walls
of Jericho When litis did not
happen, an attempt was made
to sir;ini:le Quemoy by feeble
air action and an ineffieent.
ill-prepared artillery block
ade We cannot hope for thiii
much luck again
What must now he antici
pated is far more grave The
best bet is a mHssivc. inten
sive artillery and air prep
aration, followed by an at
tempted landing as soon as
air supremacy allows 'he
Communists to outflank the
Quemoy defenses with air
dropped troops The Nation-
That tfe Akrte Can SJ
What Is Wrong!"
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
alist defensive positions on
Quemoy are much stronger
now than in 1958; but this
improvement will quickly
prove unavailing if and when
air supremacy passes to the
Communists.
The air, in fact, appears to
be the critical point, and there
is a difficulty. In 1958, the
Nationalists, flying F-86s, beat
the living daylights out of
the Communists, who flew
somewhat superior Mig-17s.
The sidewinder missiles, used
at. the very end of the fight
ing, contributed only margin
ally to the Nationalist air tri
umph. The real cause was the
Nationalist pilots' superior
proficiency and fighting spir
it. TUD
J til
U DOING by the intcrroga-
ion of a recent Commu
nist pilot-defector, the Com
munist Air Force is still very
inadequately trained. It is
now equipped, however, with
Big-19s. These are superson
ic planes so widey superior
to the Nationalists' sub-sonic
F-86s that no reliance can
any longer be placed on the
Nationalists' pilot superiority.
Using large numbers of Mig
l!)s. Ihe Communists might
in tad allain air supremacy
rather early in Ihe halllo.
This means in turn that if
the President wishes to stand
up and be counted, he must
at least be ready to use Amer
ican air power to support the
Nationalists if the need arises;
and he must be ready to do
so without a moment's delay.
But unlike Korea, the situa
tion in the Formosa Strait
is such that we can be ab
solutely certain air and naval
'ill he rnni
the job.
Unlike all previous com
parable crises, moreover, this
one finds the U. S. military
leaders satisfied with the men
and weapons they have in
hand. Adm. Harry D. Felt
has already reported that his
forces in the Pacific are suf
ficient to meet any emergen
cy an almost miraculous
new departure. Quite prob
ably, the Communists will be
deterred by this very fact.
We can only wait and see.
Brazil Congress
Rejects Premier
Brasilia -ilTIi- Congress re
jected President Joao Goul
art's appointment of Foreign
Minister San Thiagn Dantas
as Brazil's new premier early
today by a vole of 174 to llii.
Dantas was opposed by the
Socialists and the Demo
crats, who between them have
a majority of t scats in the
32K-member ch: mher of de
puties. The Labor party, to
which both the president and
the prospectie premier be
long, holds only Ri seals in
the chamber.
G o ii I a r t has two more j
chances to appoint a premier.
If all three of hi.s choices are
rejected, the Senate will !
choose ii man for ilic job
Premier Tnncredo Neves
resigned Tuesday In run for
Congress.
Probation Revoked
By Circuit Court
The proh.it ton of
T;n lo 262 IVHa
rrt . Medtord. was
this werk in .liH'ksoi
nmrt Ho va svn
a tir in the count v
Otm T
Waters
revoked
county
need to
Taylor wa. accused n( vio
l.ilint: Ins pronation by leav
mic Hie -tatr without permis
sion (io:n his pronation offi
cer and failit'.c to ohtnin sain
ful employment
Taylor originally way
placed on probation for three
cars and a onc-vcar county
.'ail sentence suspended lor
obtaining propertv vi n d e r
tiilse pic'ense?
StTOOWD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OftEGOB
dependence Comes Sunday for Twa
More African Nations, Ready or
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
Ready or not, independence
comes on Sunday to Ruanda
and Urundi. Two more un-
UJTj less prepared
candi dates
scarcely can
be imagined.
There are
many ironies
in the story
of these little
known former
Cerman East
Ncwsom African terri
tories lying along the slopes
of the Mountains of the Moon.
In the rush toward inde
pendence and Afro-Asian de
termination to wipe a u t
colonialism, whether these
new nations can exist in har
mony and prosperity becomes
secondary to the issue of in
dependence itself. Western
nations, including the United
States, anxious to avoid a
charge of perpetuating colo
nialism, remain silent.
How Much Blood?
So, in the closing hours of
United Nations debate, the
question only was one, in the
nature of the Congo two
years ago, of how much blood
would be shed.
Nor was it determined how
the nations, poor, over-populated,
based on a tribal social
structure and not yet emerged
from feudalism, would exist.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The New York Stock Ex
change reports that the share.
holding population of the
United States (meaning the
number of persons owning
shares in American business
corporations) reached a new
high of 17,010,000 in 1962 -
a 250 per cent INCREASE
since the first stockholder
census issued in 1952, a
decade ago.
TT ISN'T an exact head count
-which is to say, repre
sentatives of the New York
Stock Exchange didn't call on
every family in the United
States, as do the takers of
the population census, and ask
them how many members of
the family own shares of
stock in American corpora
tions.
The count of shareholders
was arrived at hy what Ihe
statisticians call "proved sam
pling techniques." It covered
6.278 public corporations
meaning corporations whose
stock is held by the public.
What it boils down to is
that in the United States of
America approximately one
person in each 11 persons of
our population owns shares
in America's business corpora
tions. r1ELL that to Mr. Kroosh
who is reported to b
gravely worried because com
munist Russia appears to be
unable to produce enough
military hardware to protect
herself against her alleged
enemies and at the same time
to provide her people with the
necessities and the comforts
and the conveniences that the
AMERICAN people and the
people of free enterprise
Western Europe enjoy.
From time to time he beats
his chest and shouts that
eventually communist Russia
will BURY free private enter
prise America under the mass
of communist production, but
in the next breath he reveals
that he is badly scared that
what he is predicting so con
fidently won't come to pass.
WE MIGHT advise him to
" quit kidding himself-and
quit trying to kid his people-
anrl Hn Hwav with rnmmitnism
and adopt the free way of life.
But LET'S NOT do it
It will be much better for
us to let him go his com
munist wav and TAKE THE
CONSEQUENCES.
JETTING back to the census
v of shareholders, these 6.
27ft public corporations that
are owned by some 17 mil -
lion Americans have outstand -
ing at this present moment
in history some 14 4 BILLION
shares.
These 14 4 billion shares
had a market value at the end
of lflfil of $531 BILLION a
shade more than half a TRIL
LION dollars. News dispatch
es disclose the number nf
shareholders and the esti
mated value of the 14 4 bil
lion shares they own adds
cautioii!y that ' the recent
actions in the stock exchanges
have probably shrunk this fig
ure subtantiallv."
Hut
As this is written, a sharp
RALLY is under way on the
New York Stock Kxehange.
Hlue chips are "pacing a fur
ious rally on the exchange
floor." with the high speed
tickers falling behind in re
porting the transactions We
have confidence in nnr svs
tern. Let's stick to tree
enter
n the
prise, confident thai
i long run it will be FAR better
for us than the communist
sv1cm is for the Russians
r
m
Together, Ruanda and Ur
undi, about twice the size of
Maryland, have a population
of five million. In Russia,
there are nine persons per
square kilometer, in the
United States, 22.
In Ruanda - Urundi the
figure is 86. The area is three-
Communications
Letters tj the Editor must
beat ihe name and address of
the writer although undei rer
lain circumstances the use ot e
pen P-nnvs ul initial foi oubllca
tlnn is Dtirmissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica.
Uon must not exceed 400 words
A Matter of Time
To the Editor: It i. a joy to
know lhat there is in Wash
ington that good friend of the
veterans. Senator Maurine B.
Ncuberger. Her letter speaks
volumes.
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City. Ore.
Dear Mr. Frisch:
Thank you very much for
your letter of June 19. I am
appreciative of your kindly
remarks in your letter to the
editor regarding the need for
a Veterans Administration
hospital at White City.
I have heard Dr. Middle
ton's statement before on the
difficulty of recruiting profes
sional personnel. The VA ten
years ago conducted a sur
vey, and while that may have
been the case in 1952 the ra
pid population growth and
development of Medford, Jo
sephine and Jackson counties,
and adjacent areas in north
ern California would certain
ly preclude this at present.
Some years ago difficulty was
experienced in the staffing
of the VA hospital at Rose
burg, but this problem has
been overcome there, as I am
sure it would be at Medford.
I believe that it is only a
matter of time until a hospi
tal is established to serve the
veterans 1 i v i n g in southern
Oregon and northern Califor
nia. Maurine B. Neubcrger
United States Senator
Washington, D C.
No Economic Need
To the Editor: If a billion
aire invested all of his wealth
in 5 per cent municipal bonds,
his net yearly income would
he S13B thousand a day, $50
million a year, tax free.
America has a few billion
aires, and several hundred
other very rich people who
do not have quite so much.
Joe Kennedy, the President's
father, reportedly is worth
$400 million. His net 5 per
cent return would be $20 mil
lion a year, or $54 thousand
a day.
There is no economic need
or social necessity for the ex
istence of such immense for
tunes. Their unhealthy effect
on our type of government
should be obvious. Neither is
there any excuse or justifica
tion for the fashion in which
some of these fortunes were
acquired.
O. L. Brannaman
3970 Sierra Vista ave.
Sacramento 20, Calif.
More Heat Than Light
To the Editor: I am not an
attorney nor an expert on
Constitutional Jurisprudence,
but I have read the old docu
ment a time or two.
The uproar caused by the
recent decision of the U. S.
Supreme Court concerning
prayer in the public schools
seems to be generating more
heat than light. None of the
Court's critics apparently has
grasped the idea that Amend
ment number one has nothing
to say about state rights or
Privileges.
Note the reading: "Congress
shall make no law respecting
the establishment of reiigion."
What did Congress have to I
do with the New York prayer I
deal? Nothing at all. 1
Has the Supreme Court j
ever declared the religious I
rulings of the Mormon Church
1 in the State of
! stitutional by
Utah uncon
the First
Amendment or any other? If
i that article of the Constitution
I applies to New York or any
other state, why not apply to
i Utah?
This is not a condemnation
of Utah or the Mormons. It is
merely an effort to portray
the inconsistancy of our pres
sent Supreme Court. In my
opinion the Court is trying to
stretch the Constitution to
make it mean what the social
ist minded Mr. Warren & Co.
want it to mean, as apparent
ly they ha'e done before.
The danger that portends is
not the threat of religion in
the schools but the drift of
the Supreme Court toward
usurping the powers of the
legislative and executive de
partments of our government
11 is the business of the Court
to interpret the Constitution,
not to rebuild it
American citizens are right
ly against a dictatorship of the
executive. Would a dictator
ship of distorted Court mlinss
be any less desirable?
L. G Weaver
3il Haven si
O.dford
quarters mountainous, has no I
industry and few raw ma
terials. Coffee is its only ex
port, about 36,000 tons per
year to supply the import
needs of all its people.
Those who have administer
ed it under League of Nations
and U.N. mandate since World
War I, are anxious to get out.
African neighbors are equal
ly uninterested.
Civil War Likely
In an area noted for con
flict, the chances of bloodshed
in Ruanda are especially good.
In the area are three ethnic
groups: the Watutsi Batutsi of
Ethiopian origin, the Bahutu
who are related to the Bantus
of the Congo, and the Batwa
pygmoids, related to the pyg
mies of the Congo.
For at least 400 years, the
giant Watutsi, about 6 feet,
6 inches in height, have held
the Bahutus and the pygmies
in virtual slavery, even though
the Watutsi comprised only
about 15 per cent of the popu
lation. Only the Watutsi could own
cattle, the basis of wealth and
prestige.
In 1959, the Bahutus, with
at least the silent blessings of
the Belgians, rose up against
the giants, threw out King
Mwami Kigeri V and sent
200,000 Watutsi fleeing with
him to refugee camps in Tan
ganyika, Uganda and the Con
go. Today they carry out guer-
XI5 Rocket Ship
Unexpectedly
Sets Speed Mark
Edwards AFB, Calif. -tUPD
Ihe X15 rocket ship unex
pectedly collected a bonus
world aircraft speed record of
4,159 miles an hour Wednes
day while flying its highest
angle of a tricky maneuver
linked to re-entry from space.
Five seconds of extra burn
ing time by the X15's power
ful 57,000-pound thrust rock
et engine in a flashing flight
at the fringe of space, cata
pulted the ship fio miles per
second.
The X15, with veteran
spare agency test pilot .Ine
Walker at the control?, had
i been scheduled to hit 4.000
miles an hour. 11 also surpass
ed its expected altitude of
107,000 feet by hurtling up to
120.000 feet.
After the flight. Walker
said the record performance
was "a real snap."
Walker, 41, indicated the
burning time of the engine -89
seronds instead of the
scheduled 84 - might have
been triggered by a "shallow"
start after the X15 was
launched for its 10 minute
flight from a B52 bomber
over Nevada.
Delicate Maneuvers
While streaking faster than
six times the speed of sound -
or 6.100 feel per second - the
X15 also reached its highest
angle of attack at 23 degrees
in Iwo delicate maneuvers
during which it tilted its nose
higher than its tail in a level
flight. II previously had hit 22
degrees.
The angle of attack is the
maneuver used by the X15
during re-entry when it flat
tens out its bottom side
against the earth's densening
atmosphere in "a belly flop"
to slow descent. (
Wednesday's attack angles
were to test the maximum at
tack angle that can be risked
in future altitude flighus this
year reaching possibly to a
height of 75 miles.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A KOTED psychiatrist was mildly surprised In see a lot
sitting in his waiting room, listlessly thumbing throuah.
a copy cf Aesop's Fables. "What,'' inquired the psj ehiitriit
a bit nervously, "can I do
lor you?"
"Doctor," barked t,r
fox, "you've got to help
jne. I'm not crazy like
I'm supposed to be."
. A man from Texas, visit
Ins in Alaska, was the butt
of considerable humor about,
the fart that Txas was
now only the second larceft,
state in the I'mon. "True,
true," conceded the Texan,
"but wouldn't von half-
frozen (raloots up here hk
have some of our herris of
cattle? Even-where ynu
look In Texas, you see the finest, healthiest, most expensive cattle
ever bred."
"Okay." joshrrt an A'tsknn. ' Vftti'v rnt 3 f,v ad of maiic-y
ratti?. Bui you've Rot nothing like our macestic, towering, snow
clad mountains down there ''
"Not now." shot bark the Tvan. ''but. '. e ritl -ae, son. Xt
had 'embefor our cattle trampled m c."n:"
Two Boy Scouts were campint in the wvd, and hid'tir undr
he bi.inkets to waM off a swarm of moscr.oes. One of tr.e kic
spotted a ronple of li;r.tiuns bt ssl m: ! to h.s cemp.ui.on.
"We might as well give up, Terry. Those nosquitoe a: ojl
MArehun for us with lanterns."
hy Betun'.t Cert, rutritatril hjp Kmg 1'Mtural Synlit
Nof
rilla attacks against the Bahu-
tus and with independence.
could pose the threat of civil
war.
Urundi's King Mwambutsa
V is anti-Belgian but he has
asked his people to treat the
Belgians as "friends." Mean
while, he plans to add a swim
ming pool to the grounds of
the governor - general s man
sion which he expects to oc
cupy soon.
Strictly
rsosial
By Sydney J. Harris
ic- Field Enterprises Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Some people warn us of
their insincerity by their at
tempts at candor; such phra
ses as "to tell you the truth,"
or "I'll be honest with you,"
or "to be perfectly frank," in
dicate that the speaker is not
normally truthful, honest or
frank.
Those who are fond of
quoting lhat "a little know
ledge it a dangerous thing"
don't even have enough
knowledge to realize that
they arc misquoting (and
thus misunderstanding)
Pope's line.
After men finish fighting
furiously for freedom, they
begin just as furiously enact
ing laws to take it away from
themselves.
Love is a kind of homeo
pathic disease: the only wav
to get over the ill effects of
an unsuccessful love affair is
by finding another.
The obstinate person
thinks of himself as "firm,"
while the weak one thinks
of himself as "flexible":
perhaps the most prevalent
trait in the human race is
turning our vices inside out
so that they resemble vir
tues for our moments of
self-inspection.
Political groups ought to be
moderate in their claims; for.
as Dwight Morrow once ob
served pungently, "Any party
which takes credit for the
rain must not be surprised if
its opponents blame it for the
drought."
When a man occupies a
place he cannot fill, he
creates turbulence simply
by striking out at empty air
around him.
A women who tells a suitor
she doesn't feel she is "good
enough" for him is not giving
him a compliment - she is
exercising feminine tact in
informing him that she
doesn't care for him, and is
obliquely calling him a prig.
Those who resent the social
order as confining or oppres
sive should keep in mind
Seneca"; definition: "Human
society is like an arch, kepi
from falling by the mutual
pressure of its parts."
For the majority, truth
cannot be ingested in its
pure form any more than
medicine can; it must be
flavored and watered-down
to be palatable - and it
lakes so long for truth to
prevail precisely because
its curative powers are so
diluted in general consump
tion. The most harmful thing a
parent can do to a child is
to set him up as a good ex
ample for the other children
in the family.
The gods are more or less
just in their dispensation of
bounties - for instance.
beautiful women are rarely
endowed with a sense of
humor, and thus make
botches of their lives by
their inability to handle
men lightly and effective
ly. SIS