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History from the files of Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1952 (Thursday)
Hunt continues for George
Baker Dunkin, wanted for the
slaying of state police officer.
Jacksonville museum r e-
ports a total of 74,608 visitors
since it opened in July, iau.
20 YEARS AGO
July 10. 1942 (Friday)
A new wartime regulation
prohibits campflres and bon
fires in the Kogue niver jn
tional forest after dark be
cause of the improbability of
picnickers and campers being
aware of an air raid.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudce Pot" column: "The
older girls deplore the lack
nf pedestrian lanes on North
Riverside. They say crossing
this thoroughfare is too much
like going over Niagara Falls
in a barrel.
30 YEARS AGO
July 10. 1932 (Sunday)
Local merchants have a
contest to find the woman In
southern Oregon with the red
dest hair in conjunction with
"Red Headed Woman," a film
being shown at a local the
ater. City Water commission
warns local residents to avoid
extravagant waste of water
during summer months; pen
alties established.
40 YEARSAGO
July 10. 1922 (Monday)
Jackson county fair to fea
ture "automobile row" with
the "latest model of their
favorite machine."
Exactly 1,000 Inquiries
were received and in all cases
"favorably handled'' between
May 15 and July 1 at the
Oregon Tourist and Informa
tion bureau in the chamber of
commerce building.
50 YEARSAg6
July 10, 1912 (Wednesday)
A team of horses was killed
instantly when struck by
lightning on the Rogue River
rd. north of Eagle Point.
Medford Country Club
stockholders decide to move
the club from the present
Rrounds on the Davis proper
ty to the Fiero track about
2' i miles north of Medford,
near the old Bates orchard.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five et
six Is good.
1. Rhode Island Is the
smallest state In area; what
Is the next smallest?
2. What is the square root
of one?
3. Who wrote the verses in
which this line occurs,
"You're a better man that I
am, Gunda Din"?
4. Name the Prime Minis
ter of Great Britain.
5. Under which two Presi
dents did Herbert Hoover
serve as Secretary of Com
merce? 8. In the War of 1812, who
commanded American forces
at the Battle of New Orleans?
7. Of which European
country Is Berne the capital?
8. Is nicotinic acid a poison
found In tobacco, a vitamin,
or a stain remover?
9. What Is meant by the
expression "a Carthaginian
peace"?
10. What was the former
name of the Department of
the Army?
Answers: 1. Delaware. 2.
Ont. 3. Rudyard Kipling. 4.
Harold Macmillan. 5. Hard
ing and Coolidae. t. Andrew
Jackson. 7. Swllxerland. I.
Vitamin. 9. Ptact by extermi
nation. 10. War Departmtnl.
NATIONAL
sir!:
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1962
Our Money
Elsewhere on this page today, Frank Jenkins
talks about money, and about some incidents in
which large sums are involved.
Nowhere, however (because that is a differ
ent topic altogether), does he say what money IS.
Aside from cartwheels (the fairly rare silver
dollars) and other small change, which in total
represent only a fraction of the money in circula
tion, most of the "hard cash" we think about isn't
money at all.
It is nothing more than a promise to pay, or,
more popularly, credit.
TAKE A look at a dollar bill. It isn't really mon-
ey, as we think of it. It is a promise to pay the
bearer, on demand, one dollar in silver.
Larger denominations have similar promises.
Five dollar bills are either Federal Reserve Notes
("Will Pay the Bearer on Demand Five Dollars"
without specifying whether in silver, gold, or
whatever) ; the $5 U.S. Note, with wording simi
lar to that of the Federal Reserve Note, and the
$5 Silver Certificate, which promises to pay in
silver.
Higher denominations of currency have simi
lar legends (although when research on the above
was under way in the newsroom, $10s and $20s
were unavailable for inspection).
Xf HEN YOU write a check to pay a bill at the
first of the month, no cash or currency or
"money" changes hands. What you do is to write
a promise to pay, which (if all goes well) is hon
ored by your bank, which in turn promised to pay
you, or on your behalf, certain sums, when you
make a deposit.
Does your bank, when making this promise,
have on hand the silver and gold bullion to make
good on this promise? No, it does not.
In the intricate system of credit, what it has
are other promises to pay. And these, in turn, do
not always (or even usually) equal 100 per cent
of the promises to pay the bank has made.
Most of the money
transfer of a promise to
account to another, and
ises to pay in any given bank does not fluctuate
very greatly from week to week, except under
unusual circumstances.
DANKS WHICH are a part of the Federal Re-
serve System have accounts with the Federal
Reserve Bank, and the interlocking system of
credit (promises to pay
here, too.
Very substantial increases in the total supply
of money in circulation in the country can be
caused by increases in the amount of outstanding
credit throughout the country.
OERE IS an oversimplified example:
1 Say your credit is
lion from a bank which means that they prom
ise to pay your promises to pay up to a total of $5
million, in return for your promise to pay them
back eventually with interest.
Say this loan overextends the bank s legal re
serve the amount of "money" it has on hand
to back the $5 million loan. Then they go to the
Federal Reserve and borrow enough money
(promises to pay) to meet their reserve require
ment.
A total of $5 million
out the printing press turning over once, or the
mint turning out an extra silver dime.
Its real money too.
when the transaction is
several years, and your
back to the bank, and
serve, the money supply shrinks by just that much.
TIE COMPLEX chore of managing this intri-
A ruiti nvrumirl nf mnnoif f ni .tirnmwna tn'ruiv
or credit), lies with the Federal Reserve, and with
the Treasury. There are various devices they can
use (the manipulation of interest rates, for one,
or a decision not to make available more reserve
funds, or a change in the icserve rate) which can
substantially alter the supply of money in circula
tion. And what is behind all this money? Is it gold
bullion, or silver dollars? No, not except for a
very tiny percentage.
It is, ultimately, the promise of the govern
ment to make good on its promises to pay, and
underlying that is the power to tax.
THIS IS the principal reason why some econo-
mists would view with alarm anv substantial
shrinkage of the national debt, for the national
debt is simply the government's promise to pay
the holders of its bonds and notes.
And these bonds and notes, in turn, largely
held by the Federal Reserve and other large
banks, serve as the basis for the loans they make
to smaller financial institutions, which in turn
loan money based on the loans they receive from,
and holdings they have in larger institutions.
Any substantial decrease in the national debt
would decrease, and by an amount larger than the
actual debt decrease, the potential supply of mon
ey in the country.
BANKERS and economists know these facts to
ii ui, y-t " c in'i't " c v mini
relatively correct.) But most people-on-the-street,
when thev think of money, think in terms of cur
rency. The check book in your pocket, and
your ability to borrow from the bank, and the
bank's ability to borrow from the "Fed," and
finally the government's promise to pay off its
debts, eventually, with tax receipts, is the source
of most money today.
ii s a weirn and wontiernil system, whicn, HKe
Topsy, "just growed." But it works. E.A.
Tree
transactions are simply a
pay from one individual's
the overall total of prom
on demand) operates
good. You borrow $5 mil
has been "created" with
It will buy things. But
complete, perhaps after
$5 million loan is paid
theirs to the federal He-
"Oh, We're Not Against ALL Government
Spending"
3bu
Washington Report
By William
Ici United Feature Syndicate
INTRAPARTY SCRAP
Washington The most
lively infighting is breaking
out all over in the Republi
can party two
full years
ahead of the
1964 presiden
tial nominat
I n g conven
tion. The lead
ers p u b 1 icly
cry for "uni
ty" and tush
tush the heat-
vrolf ed arguments
being thrown by Republican
against Republican. But pri
vately they rub their hands in
satisfaction that Republicans
are interested enough to be
gin so early what is actually
already a sharp contest for
the 1964 nomination and for
control of the mind of the
party.
It is the best possible proof
that the nomination is widely
seen as realistically worth
having. And It is good news
rather than bad for the Re
publican rank-and-file. As the
case is put succinctly and with
characteristic candor by
young "old pro" Richard Nix
on: "We welcome this because
we like to see our candidates
making the news and taking
it away from the Democrats.
The worst thing that can hap
pen to a party is to be dull."
.
IT IS perfectly clear that
dullness will not be charge
able to the GOP from now
until election night in No
vember of 1964. The extont
of the party's recovery from
1960 is suggested best of all
by the racket now being rais
ed by disputants ranging from
the ultra - conservative Sen.
Barry Goldwater through the
moderate center, occupied by
former President Eisenhower
and Nixon, leftward to the
forces of Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller of New York.
For the first time since the
Democrats returned to power
in 1960, this is a genuine, and
not merely a sort of keeping-in-practicc,
racket. The Gold
water people are beginning to
break with almost the whole
of such Republicanism as re
mains from the Eisenhower
years and certainly from the
new advisory committee ar
rangements sponsored by Gen
eral Eisenhower to operate
outside the Republican na
tional cocMnittee.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
fPHEY SAY ft burly, lough hombie strode into an Arizona
A bar one night and demanded, "A Diamondback With
four Rattles." The bartender emptied four bottles of fire
water into a huge beaker
which the stranger emp
tied forthwith.
Just then a violent
earthquake struck and
the whole bar was de
molished. From the
wreckage came the voice
of the stranger. "Say, I
ain't got a kick like that
out of a drink in years.
Mix me another one,
boy!"
An American in Aber
deen called up the police
station and reported, "In
front of the McTavish National Rank, there aie two Scolsmrr
who are violently insane." "What makes you think that?" askec
the lieutenant. "They must be." explained the American. "On
is throwing; his money away on the stieet und the other is pick
ing it up and handing It back to him "
"The new baby," observed Grandma pioudly, "lias his pi army s
eves and his granny's nose." Then she added. "Rut if his fatuous
grandfather doesn't stop leaning over thst cnb. it will have his
teeth"'
"1 suppose she does bring out the beast in him.'' conceded a
choius girl, discussing her roommate a latest romance, "but it a
okay; she s not nfrsid of mice.''
O 1M, by Benom Cert. Distributed by Xing Features Syndicate
rv r iw i 'i i 1 1 ii ' i 1 1 1 ii
S. White
They are doing this not
only in conviction that such
"splinter groups," as Gold
water calls them, are of doubt
ful Republicanism too lib
eral and not reliably partisan.
They are motivated also by
suspicion that the setting up
of nonregular party organiza
tions of this kind may be the
prelude to a massive effort
by the left and center wings
of the GOP to isolate and cut
down the right wing at the
coming convention.
THIS, in fact, is very much
what it looks like, and the
more so since General Eisen
hower has repudiated Gold
water's criticism and since
Nixon has totally sided with
the former President.
I nspite of such influential
support for what Goldwater
calls "splinter groups" and
General Eisenhower calls in
dispensable additions to Re
publican strength, however, it
would be highly premature to
suppose that the Republican
rightists had lost the game
already.
Eager amateur groups of
this kind, even given the for
midable backing of such lead
ers as Eisenhower and Nixon,
tend to be stronger before a
convention showdown than
they do when the convention
meets. Whatever their impact
in 1962 or even in 1963, it will
remain to be seen how much
weight they will carry when
the smoke begins to curl i.i
the smoke-filled rooms in
1964.
INTRAPARTY struggling on
this point at the moment,
therefore, is both inconclusive
and meaningful. It is meaning
ful because it plainly estab
lishes that the GOP elephant,
far from being dead, is no
longer even sick and tired,
but rather stirring powerfully
and crossly.
So the outlook in the net
is that the Republicans face
for 1964 an intraparty contest
no less severe and no less
interest - provoking than
when Eisenhower and the late
Sen. Robert A. Taft collided
for the nomination in 1 9 52 .
It may be an even more
spirited contest. For this time
there could well be not two
serious contenders, but as
many as five Nixon, Rock
efeller. Goldwater, Rep. Wil
liam Scranton of Pennsylva
nia and George Romney of
Michigan.
Stop Wle
lr 1 s.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGOfr
Clash of Rivals for Power in Algeria
Threatens
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In the dusty Casbah and
in the tree-lined streets of
European Algiers, celebrating
Moslem Arabs
still were
beating out on
their automo
bile horns the
rhythmic
beat, "Algeria
is free," when
the first signs
of dissention
appeared. The
Newiom common goal
which for more than seven
years of war had held the
Arab leadership together had
been achieved. Now the in
ternal stresses were coming
to the surface.
On the one side was tough,
sullen Mohammed Ben Bella,
who has been at war for 22
of his 43 years and in nearly
six years of imprisonment by
the French had become a sym
bol of martyrdom in Algeria's
fight for independence.
On the other was slight,
bespectacled, 42-year-old Ben
Youssef Ben Khedda, premier
of the provisional government
designated to run newly in
dependent Algeria until elec
tions can be held.
While other Algerian lead
ers sought to minimize the
differences between the two,
these differences actually
were basic to the future of
Algeria.
Ben Khedda held that inde
pendence permitted "coopera
tion not only between France
and Algeria, but also between
Franch, North Africa, the
Arab world, and Africa."
The embittered, radical Ben
Bella would sever all ties
with France.
"Economic colonialism must
go with political colonialism,"
he said.
To the former rebel forces
he said:
"The revolution must go
on ... Be ready to take over
your country with your rifles
in your left hand and your
picks and shovels in your
right hand."
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pen name oi initial for publica
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Tribune reserves the right to
edit all tetters with an eye to
clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica
Uon must not exceed 400 words
Chained Dogs
To the Editor: It is totally
incomprehensible that any
one owning a dog should want
to condemn it to a life of
misery and loneliness. To stay
well and happy a dog must
have exercise and companion
ship. When a potential dog own
er applies to the Animal Wel
fare League in Chicago (one
of the two largest shelters in
the city) he is asked where the
dog will be kept. If told the
basement or garage he is told
it is not good enough. Though
possibly dry and clean these
places spell isolation and bit
ter loneiiness.
The Medford city code
chapter 5, paragraph 400,
states that no person shall
fail to provide an animal or
bird in his custody with food,
drink and proper shelter - the
penalty being 60 days in jail
plus S100 fine. The word
"proper" as applied to shelter
implies warmth, dryness and
adequate size, and has been
so defined by numer o u s
judges before whom these
cases have been tried.
If all animal lovers will ex
amine conditions under which
dogs are chained and finding
any of these provisions un
met, promptly report the mat
ter to our capable dog war
den, he will know what to do.
It is a simple matter to in
stall an overhead wire (or
even a ground peg) and attach
a long wire from it to the
dog's collar, or better et
erect an inexpensive fence.
Unfortunately, in this fine
world of ours, if a pup barks
because he is hungry, cotd,
thirsty or just plain lonely,
he is always the culprit, and
when I think of what he has
to endure - the heat of the
summer sun and the pene
trating cold of winter, chained
and helpless, I find myself
hoping that a similar fate
could befall its owner.
(Name on file!
Medford
Would Be Boost
To the Editor: A hospital at
White City for veterans living !
in Oregon and California I
would be a tremendous boost
for all Rogue River Valley '
communities. '
It behooves such grouajs as
veterans orcanizatiiat and
auxiliaries, chambers of com- j
merce. Elks. Moose. Lions aavl 1
Eagles, to bestir themselves!
and got behind the move to i
obtain this hospital hich is
so sorely needed.
A conducted tour of build
ings now standing Slid suit
able for hospital use can be
arranged for interested par
ties David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
111
ssi . a Itsi
Stability of North Africa
In the background stood
Egypt's President Gamal Ab
del Nasser who had helped
the rebels obtain their Soviet
and Red Chinese weapons and
who had not abandoned his
ambitions to lead the Arab
world.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Let's talk about money to
day. It's an interesting sub
ject. It always has been an
interesting subject. John Bart
lett, in his indispensable Fa
miliar Quotations, devotes
half a page in the index to
the subject of money, with
citations of what people have
said about it down through
the ages.
One of the fundamental
ones is from Arthur Hugh
Clough, who causes one of
the characters in his Dipsy
chus to say: "How pleasant
it is to have money." Many
controversial statements have
been made about money, but
nearly everybody will agree
with that one.
AS THIS is written, there
are some weird tales about
money in the news: The case
of the San Francisco barber,
for example, who collapsed
and died of a heart attack the
other day while watching a
movie in a nearby theater.
Apparently he had no rela
tives, and when the authori
ties started prodding around
in his dusty, cluttered little
shop they found $71,000 in
cash tucked away in cubby
holes here and there. He
wasn't afraid of banks, as a
bankbook was found showing
deposits of $40,000. Apparent
ly, he just like to hide money
away. "
THEN there is the Los An
geles woman who tried to
donate cash to a "Black Mus
lim" cult to be used, she
said, "to kill the white peo
ple." The donation was re
fused and she wandered into
a nearby house, claiming that
someone was trying to kill
her.
Police were called, and
when they searched her they
found in her purse $11,427 in
large and small bills. Strang
er still, they found sewed into
the hem of her dress 649
shares of blue chip stocks
valued at current market
prices at $30,040.
She wore three wedding
rings, two engagement rings
and two diamond - studded
watches.
IF ONE were minded to make
a cynical crack, this might
be appropriate:
Helix Man Quits
Legislature Post
Salcm-tliPII-The resignation
of Raphael Raymond Sr.,
Helix, aa state representative
from Umatilla county has
been filed here, according to
Secretary of State Howell
Appling Jr.
The seat held by Raymond,
a Republican, became vacant
July 1 when he accepted an
appointment by Gov. Mark
Hatfield to the Oregon Wheat
Commission, Appling said.
Raymond, a farmer, had
served in the legislature since
1959. Under reapportionment,
has Umatilla county seat be
came part of a new house
district composed of five
eastern Oregon counties.
Raymond did not seek re
election this year.
Appling said that under
the law, Raymond's seat will
remain vacant until a succes
sor is elected in November
unless a special session of the
legislature is called between
now and then, which is un
likely. If a special session
were to be called, a Republi
can committee in Raymond's
area would name a tempor
ary successor.
South Vietnamese
Battalion Defeated
Saigon. Viet Nam -WPP- The
South Viet Nam government
reported Monday that a Viet
namese army regular battal
ion has been defeated with
heavy losses in a major battle
against Communist guerrillas
in the central highlands.
The mauling of the battal
ion by Communist Viet Cong
guerrillas was described as
one of the severest defeats j
suffered by government troops J
in recent months. j
The commifnique said the i
battle occurred July 3 follow
ing a night attack by Commu
nist forces on two posts south
of Quang Ngai. It reported
that 24 government soldiers
were killed, including two
officers. Nine other govern
ment troops were reported
wounded, and 10 soldiers were i
listed as missing.
Unofficial sources, howev
er, said the casualty figures
ran higher.
To him in Cairo Ben Bella
pledged that Algeria would
become a Socialist state dedi
cated to the same revolution
ary reforms as advocated by
Nasser.
On Ben Khedda's side was
possession of Algiers, the cap-
JENKINS
The New Frontier's habit
of carelessness with money
seems to be catching.
WEIRDEST of all is t h e
story of the workmen
who were renovating 24 old
one-car garages in Jersey City,
N. J. They came across an old
car. They couldn't resist look
ing into its trunk. In the
trunk they found an old metal
toolbox and two leather bags.
The toolbox and the bags con
tained TWO MILLION, FOUR
HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS in currency, most
of it in large bills.
Two days later, in a board-ed-up
garage only a block
away from the one where the
$2.4 million had been discov
ered, detectives found $168,
675.52 in cash. The cash was
crammed into two old shop
ping bags.
The authorities, buttressed
by some evidence found along
with the cash, came to the
conclusion that the money is
the property of a big-time
gambler by the name of Mo
riarty who is serving a two-to-three
year sentence in the
New Jersey state prison.
FANTASTIC?
Wait a minute.
You haven't heard it all.
THE Internal Revenue Serv
ice promptly filed tax liens
totaling $3.4 MILLION
against Moriarty on the basis
of the $2.4 million found in
the toolbox and the old bags
in the trunk of the old car
in the first garage.
Which means that if Mori
arty lays claim to the money,
or can be proved to be the
owner of it, he can wind up
losing the $2.4 million and
IN ADDITION owing the gov
ernment ANOTHER MIL
LION DOLLARS!
WHAT of the $168,675.52
found in the second
cache?
Well the New Jersey county
of Hudson taking no chances
that the federal government
might claim it as collateral
for the million dollars it says
Moriarty still owes over and
above the $2.4 million found
in the first cache has IM
POUNDED it on the theory
that.maybe Moriarty owes the
county some tax money.
Investment in
Price Supported
Commodities Dips
Washington -HIPP- The gov
ernment s investment in price
supported commodities totaled
$6,959,190,237 as of May 31,
according to the Agriculture
department.
This was more than $224
million below the investment
a month earlier.
The investment was made
up of $4,615,016,249 in com
modities owned outright by
the Commodity Credit Corp.
and $2,344,173,988 in out
standing loans on farm prod
ucts still held by producers.
The investment as of May
31 compared with an invest
ment of $7,283,846,009 on the
same date a year ago.
Loss Estimated
The department said the es
timate of the loss which will
be realized upon ultimate dis
position of price-support in
ventories amounted to $1,305,
335,000. This was comprised
of an estimated loss of $122,
106,000 on commodities under
loan and an estimated loss of
$1,183,229,000 on inventories.
Wheat was the too itpm in
the investment. The govern
ment owned outright 1.16 bil
lion bushels valued at about
$2.3 billion and held Inane nn
66 million bushels valued at
about $118 million.
Corn in inventory totaled
"46 million bushels worth
S844 million. Loans on 918
million bushels were valued
at $1.03 billion.
Independent Study
Secretary of Agriculture Or-
ville L. Freeman has set up an
annual independent study to
assure that Agriculture De
partment policies and pro
grams work most effectively
for the preservation and im
provement of the family farm.
The studv will he mart, hv
a subcommittee of the Public
Advisory Committee on rural
areas development.
Freeman directed Clarence
McCormick, Vincennes, Ind.,
chairman tf the advisory com
mittee, to make "an inde
pendent study of the impacts
and effects of the depart
ment's policies and programs
on tC CJie preservation and
improvement of the family
farm pattern of American ag
riculture." j
ital, and the apparent loyalty
of the Algerian forces in the
Algiers military prefecture.
But in four of Algeria's six
military zones, sympathy
seemed to be swinging to
Ben Bella.
Ben Bella's devotion to Al
gerian independence scarcely
could be as doubtful as were
the benefits he offered: close
association with Egypt in an
Arab world dominated by
Nasser and an economy based
on the barter system of Rus
sia. Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
lc Field Enterprises Inc.
DREAM WORLD
One of the reasons that psy
chology makes so little head
way among the mass of peo
ple is that its)
,',' '1 docDest truths
seem to vio-
Jj late what '
cherish
we
a a
common
- It gives us
otiense to Da
told that cer
tain of our ac
tions and be
Harls
havior are the exact opposite
of what we think they are:
what gambler, for instance,
could be convinced that he is
really trying to lose, not win?
Yet everything we know,
on the deeper psychological
level, about the addiction to
gambling points to a strong
desire to lose. The patho
logical gambler dies broke be
cause he cannot rest until ha
has lost everything.
In much the same way,
the Don Juan would be af
fronted lo be told lhat his
"attraction" lo women is
really a dislike of them:
lhat his compulsive sexual
activity comes from fear
and resentment of the
woman, and not from affec
tion; or, most shattering of
all, that his promiscuous
ness may be a way of de
fending himself against his
homosexual yearnings.
Perhaps we can begin lo
understand this topsy-turvy-world
of the unconscious
by a simple and common
illustration: the various
fears and phobias that af
flict people - lhe most com
mon of all being a fear of
heights.
Actually, the person who
nervously draws away from
a high window or the edge
of a cliff is protecting him
self from the wish lo jump.
What he fears is not the
height itself but his own
destructive impulse - and
he draws away to remove
lhe temptation.
Almost all phobias of this
kind are wishes in reverse:
we fear what we are at
tracted to. The phobia is
the exact reverse of the
underlying desire. Unless
we understand and accept
this, we cannot compre
hend how a person, at a
certain time in his life, will
commit some act (suicide,
arson, embezzlement) that
seems so much against the
grain of his character.
The tVDical pmhP7W tnf
instance, is a classic type:
quiet, industrious, methodical,
no known bad habits, a long
reputation for trust worthi
ness. Suddenly t h e dam
bursts, and everyone is nuit
amazed.
The "worrier" is annthpr
prime example: say, t h e
mother who is always fret
ting about her children's safe
ty. Who hovers nvpr (Itnm
who is forever tormented bv
thoughts of accidents and
catastrophies. She would be
appalled and indignant to
learn that this phobia of hers
really represents a deep-seated
wish. The way she guards
against her unconscious feel
ings of rage and hostility to
ward her "loved ones" is by
over-protecting them.
These are all unpalatable
truths about ourselves; they
go against the current of
"common sense." But until
we recognize their validity,
we are living in a dream
world, strangers to ourselves
and to others.
Poll Voters Defeat
AH Daylight Time
Listeners of radio station
KBOY voted three to one
against having uniform dav.
light savings time in an in
formal 15-minute telephone
poll taken by the station Fri
day. General manager Win
Marks stated that of the 147
calls received. 110 were op
posed to the proposed meas
ure and 37 were in favor of it.
The question was worded in
an explanatory manner, stat
ing that a yes vote was in
favor of uniform daylight
time throughout the state,
while i no vote was in favor
or the present confused time
system.