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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackion County
History from the fllei of Tha
Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yaara ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 19, 1SS2 (Saturday)
Four-year-old Medford boy
reported lost In the rough
Hnnt.v arminl Four mile
lake, about 30 miles east of
Medford.
Money to support a cam-
natirn fnr a civic auditorium
is coming In rapidly, accord
ing to fund cnairman a. i.
Lausmann.
20 YEARS AGO
July 11. 1942 (Sunday)
Jackson county Joins in
drive to meet nation's war
needs of scrap iron, steel and
other salvage materials.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
citizen reports while rum
maging around in his garage
ha found a quart of prohibi
tion 'Scotch in a dimpled bot
tle - the kind that smelled
like a pair of gloves drying
back of the kitchen stove."
30 YEAR8 AGO
July 19. 1932 (Tuesday)
Stealing of new license
plates supersedes theft of
gasoline in number of cases
reported to city police.
i Total of 344 Jackson coun
ty residents, including many
women, sign petitions asking
for repeal of prohibition.
40 YEARS AGO
July 19. 1922 (Wednesday)
Circulation of petitions to
recall Jackson county Sheriff
Charles E. Terrill termed "Ku
Klux Klan plot."
Entrants from all sections
of Oregon coast slated to take
part In motorcycle run from
Medford to Crater lake.
80 YEARS AGO
July 19. 1912 (Friday)
"Cloudburst" of rain and
hailstones "the site of goose
eggs" falls in Ashland area;
damage reported to peach and
other fruit crops.
First carload of potatoes
ever shipped from the Rogue
valley leaves Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ar ttn carreer Is lueerler;
Mvan ar tight it excellent; fiva ar
is li eeed.
1. A trapezoid is to a cube
as a circle Is to a prism, pyr
amid, or sphere?
2. Which U.S. President
first used the term Cabinet to
refer to his Department
Heads?
3. If you put a marble Into
a box and then add one af
ter one minute and continue
to double the amount each
minute for 30 minutes, when
will the box contain one-half
the amount it will have after
30 minutes?
4. Correct the following:
It's nobody but I.
3. Are toads cold-blooded,
or warm-blooded?
6. Which of these Is not a
mammal; porpoise, manatee,
shark, seal?
7. Which President first In
slsted his Department Heads
be loyal to his policies?
8. Whst Is the chief Ingre
dient of chewing gum?
B. Is Bermuda an island, or
a group of islands?
10. What is the most Impor
tant hay crop in the U.S.?
Antwarsi 1. Sphere. 2. Jam-
a Madison. 3. Attar 29 min
utM. 4. It's nobody but ma.
8. Cold-blooded. 1. Shark. 7.
George Washington. 8. Chle
kit. 9. (Sroup. 10. Alfalfa.
THUH8DXY. JULY II. IMS
A New
Bier labor Beems almost intent on forcing the
hand of the administration. The President is sup
posed to have admitted in private that he "over
reacted" in scolding the steel companies last
April. The realization would make it that much
harder for him not to crack down on demands
of labor that over-reach his "productivity" guide
lines.
Yet the International
ists and United Auto Workers, both AFL-CIO
unions representing workers in aerospace plants,
insist that they want a
and that they want it before they even Degin to
It . n i I L
taiK aoout a a per cent productivity doosi.
It was on this account that Secretary of Labor
Arthur J. Goldberg July 15 warned that he will
ask Conzress for laws to halt strikes at missile
plants and sites if these
threat to walk out July
CECRETARY Goldberg
asking Congress for
than the Taft-Hartley Act.
President Kennedy
reluctance to use Taft-Hartley than either 01 nis
immediate predecessors as he pointed out in
his April 30 address to a largely unresponsive
U.S. Chamber of Commerce audience. But Taft-
Hartly could prove a clumsy instrument in the
missiles and rockets industry.
An 80-dav injunction obtained now would
run out in mid-October, leaving the space workers
free to strike then. Presumably Congress will
have left Washington by that time hence any
action on its part would require a special session.
On the eve of congressional elections this would
be embarrassing to say
C OLDBERG on July
management leaders
to make it necessary for the government to invoke
Taft-Hartley or, once that authority is exhausted,
to ask Congress for further relief.
"It should not be necessary," the Secretary
said, and I hope it won t be necessary. He
seemed to be hinting that the alternative might
be to ask Congress in advance for the authority
to seize and operate industries.
In World War II plant seizure powers of the
President were spelled out in the Smith-Connally
Act, passed over President Roosevelt's veto in
June, 1943. This was almost two months after
Roosevelt had taken over coal mines because of a
strike.
Previously, on June 9, 1941, with the nation
girdine- for defense. Roosevelt had ordered the
army to take over the strike-bound plant of the
North American Aviation Corp. This action was
without specific legislative authority, but little
criticism was voiced publicly inasmuch as the
North American strike appeared to nave oeen
fomented by Communists.
TAFT-HARTLEY, which superseded Smith-
Connally, extends no power to plant seizure to
the President. Sen. Taft did, however, include
such power in amendments he proposed in 1949.
President Truman's seizure of steel plants in 1952
on his "Inherent ' power was struck down
by the U.S. Supreme Court by a 6-3 decision.
Justice Black's opinion held that neither the "con
stitutional provisions that grant executive powers
to the President" nor acts of Congress gave Tru
man such authority.
Thus if John F. Kennedy does desire the pow
er to act outside Taft-Hartley in an emergency,
he will have to seek it in advance. E.R.R.
Transoceanic
The first programmed transoceanic telecast
focuses attention on a
often will this new magic be used and how
well?
The tests of the Telstar satellite which were
carried over American networks July 10 occasion
ed a good deal of criticism as well as acclaim.
Tha technical oualitv
universally praised. But as Jack Gould com
mented: It was understandable that the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Company, which
built and paid for Telstar, would want to turn
the occasion into an event for family rejoicing.
But the awkwardness of the proceedings, particu
larly in the introduction of speakers and guests,
may be regretted since, as matters worked out,
the program was the first live trans-Atlantic tele
vision program."
After the French reverse transmission of the
following evening, Harry Reasoner of Columbia
Broadcasting System cracked: "We gave them
Vice President Johnson and they gave us back
the Ed Sullivan show." Howard K. Smith of
American Broadcasting Company was somewhat
more acerb: "We are learning to communicate
less and less better and better.
lf ORD that the telecast from this country to
" Europe will include a portion of President
Kennedy's press conference came as something
of a surprise. In initial discussions among the net
work representatives and those of the United
States Information Agency who are preparing
the programs, it had been suggested that the news
portions of the broadcasts might well be pitched
at a level somewhat lower
IVonaganda aspects
vision inevitably will bring up matters of taste.
as indeed will all programming. This can become
extremely touchy in view of the dubious quality
of television programming in Europe as well as
in the UnirJs-A -.
Stand?
Association of Machin
"catch - up" raise this year
unions carry out their
za.
appears to have in mind
some machinery other
has shown somewhat less
the least.
15 said both union and
had a responsibility not
Television
very real problem: How
of the transmission was
than chiefs of state.
of international tele
"Chint Up Far Better Thing And All That
Move Along Good Chap "
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Algeria 'Liberated'
To the Editor: Algeria has
finally been "liberated" and
Ben Youssef Khedda, who has
made many visits to Red
China, Red Russia, and other
C o m m u n ist countries now
heads the government in Al
giers. According to the July
Issue of the National Eagle,
the FLN, which put him in
Dower, is Communist, and he,
himself, is one of the world's
top Communist terrorists. So
Algeria has been "UDeratea
like Cuba, into the most dead
ly and brutal slave system
ever known.
Those who know the score
object strenuously to the
shameful way. the American
press presented the Algerian
picture. Let's look at the
record.
As citizens of France, every
bit as much as the people of
Hawaii and Alaska are citi
zens of the U.S.A., the Algeri
ans are fully entitled to the
protection of life and property
under the French Constitution
which specifically states that
the French Republic is indi
visible. Yet, somewhere in
1959 de Gaulle flung the
French Constitution out the
window by deciding that Al
geria was no longer a part
of France. And 10 million
French citizens suddenly
found themselves dispossessed
of their Constitutional rights
and the protection of their
own government while, at the
same time, they were under
brutal attack by a criminal
conspiracy of political terror
ists Intent on seizing power
the FLN.
There could be only one
answer to all of this - the
OAS, led by the finest and
most patriotic officers in the
French Army who, long he
fore tills, on orders of the
arch deceiver, de Gaulle, him
self, had given their word of
honor to the Algerians that
they would never pull out and
leave the country to the
mercy of the Communist FLN.
The OAS has made heroic ef
forts to keep that word of
honor.
The labeling by our Press
of the OAS as "terrorists" has
a ring to it as false as that
of a lead dollar thrown on
the counter. Why has this
same Press completely ignored
for the past 7 or 8 years the
merciless and ruthless terror
Ism of the Red FLN?
De Gaulle a hero? A politi
cal senilis? The savior of his
people? You've Just recently
read this same kind of tripe
about Castro - and not so long
ago about Sukarno, Tito, and
Mao Tse-tung.
Tony Galli.
1720 S.W. Bridge St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
A Long Memory
To the Editor: Elisabeth
Poston's letter castigating
Howell Appling is nothing
new. He was attacked bitterly
In I960 and withstood It, be
ing endorsed by the electorate
by a margin of 72.000 votes.
For months, beginning Dec. 8.
the Hatfield camp took a
verbal lashing by the Attor
ney General and his propo
nents. The Governor retained
silent dignity as befits his
office.
Now the campaign is on
and the Thornton people yell
uncle. They can dish It out.
but not take it. And. inci
dentally, Mr. Thornton knows
his Candolaria neighbor. F.m
niett Willard. has been cam
paign coordinator on a full
time basis for months.
Why does he lnsLt on be
littling Travis Cross, who
holds the same office for the
governor Tom Wright did for
Governor Holmes The record
will show Mr. Thornton em
ployed Mrs. Wright and Mrs.
Stone as his publicists on the
attorney general s payroll.
The public should ailays
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDfORD, OREGON
remember in this historic
campaign that the Attorney
General said David O'Hara
should be secretary of state
and he tried to keep Howell
Appling from that office. The
Supreme Court voted for
Appling 7-0. Can you blame
Appling for having a long
memory?
Rosalind C. Luehrs,
1345 Jefferson St., NE,
Salem, Ore.
Right Abridged
To the Editor: Several bills
are now before the U.S. Sen
ate which would give a mo
nopoly of free radio and TV
time for the political broad
casts of the Democrats and
Republicans while denying
similar time to the Socialist
Labor Party as well as other
minority parties.
If these bills are enacted
into law, the right of minority
parties to publicize their pro
grams will be seriously
abridged. It is my opinion
that this proposed legislation
is essentially in conflict with
Article V of the U.S. Consti
tution. Article V provides for
changes in our basic law.
Of course, it is plain that
these bills do not prohibit
change but they do make agi
tation for change exceedingly
difficult.
If the framers- of the U.S.
Constitution contemplated a
crystallization of the political
social structure of the United
States,' why did they put in
Article V?
Henry K. Korman,
2640 Garfield st.,
Longview, Wash.
Stop Carping
To the Editor: Is it only a
figment of my imagination
that people who adbble in
politics are always carping?
Are tney miserable because
they marked "X" on the bal
lot, where the majority of us
did, and would like the op
portunity at this late date to
rush back and erase it?
A fed up citizen, nolitican.
Just plain citizen, what ever
mess our country is in. we
the people are to blame and
all the carping won't change
that.
Until next election date,
study your candidates (don't
Just look at their pearly teeth
and listen to their smooth
line). If you're interested you
can get their back history, etc.
Meet new friends, get in
terested in a hobby and stop
that carping.
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Association to Meet
Again in September
Rogue Valley Rabbit Mar
keting association will not
hold meetings during the
summer months. It was an
nounced by members of the
board of directors recently.
At a recent meeting the
resignation of Tom Trantham,
president, was accepted by
the board. Trantham submit
ted his resignation due to
other business matters. He
has been president of the as
sociation since January.
The association was organ
ized last October by rabbit
raisers in southern Oregon.
Meetings will resume In Sep
tember. Deputy DA Undergoing
Reserve Training
Deputy District Attorney
Robert Fox is now under
going two weeks Marine Re
serve training at Camp Pen
dleton. Calif.
Fox was notified recently
that he has been promoted
from captain to major in the
United Stales Marine Corps
Reserve. His reserve duty
time will not count on vaca
tion. Hie county court noted
as it approved his leave.
Western Delegates at Geneva Watching
Relationship Between Chinese, Russians
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
A side pastime of Western
delegates attending the Ge
neva conference on Laos has
been to watch
closely the re
lationship be
tween the Rus
sians and Red
Chinese.
They report
no signs that
the rift be
tween the two
has been
Kiwiom patched up.
At Geneva each of the Com
munist partners Is represented
by a deputy foreign minister.
Thus the conduct of the two is
considered a fair barometer of
the political atmosphere In
Moscow and Peiping.
Two weeks ago Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev an
nounced he would assist Pei
ping against an "Imperialist"
attack . It was felt he meant
primarily to warn the United
States against allowing any
move by Chiang Kai-shek
against the Chinese mainland.
Slow Reaction
At first the Soviet move
brought no reaction from the
Chinese at Geneva. Later, pre
sumably on word from Pei
ping, they described it as
"good."
They qualified even that
mild response with the ex
planation that the Russians
simply were living up to a
long-standing agreement on
mutual defense.
Pelplng's Deputy Foreign
Minister Chang Han Fu met
with Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Georgi Pushkin when
Chang arrived from Peiping
last month. Ask the Chinese
whether the two have met
since then, and the reply is,
"They may have."
In contrast, they publicize
other Chang meetings, nota
bly those with Laotian neu
tralist Premier Prince Sou
vanna Phouma.
Chinese and Russian dele
gates and officials rarely, if
ever, are seen in public to
gether outside the conference
room.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, there is
again no BIG news on the
wires - by BIG news meaning
the kind of news that draws
big, black headlines in the
papers and gives us all the
cold shivers.
So
Again
We'll have to fall back on
the little news.
IN THE little news depart
ment. Governor Edmund
Brown, of California, says
this morning to Governor Nel
son Rockefeller, of New York.
"California will pass New
York, to become the nation's
most populous state, some
time in December of this
year."
To which Governor Rocke
feller replies: '
"Governor Brown of Cali
fornia is wrong. New York
will remain the nation's most
populous state until mld
1963." HERE are the estimated pop
ulations of the two states
on this July 1:
New York, 17,250.000.
California, 17,094,000.
AS OF now, that is, New
York Is still ahead. But,
the California State Depart
ment of Finance says:
"C a 1 i f o r nia's population
reached an estimated 17,094,
000 on July 1, 1962. It will
continue to increase at a rate
of just under four per cent to
a total of 17.688,000 by mid
1963 and 18,274.000 by mid
1964. California's population
will definitely exceed New
York's total by the end of the
year 1962."
V'HY IS It so definite?
" The California State De
partment of Finance puts it
this way:
"California's population in
crease last year (from July 1,
1961 to July 1, 1962) Included
migrants, 363.000; increase in
military personnel, 29,000; ex
cess of births over deaths,
249.000 - or a total increase
for the 12 months of 641,000.
So
It Is to be presumed
California's population will
Increase at the same rate
during the remandcr of 1962.
If so, it will wind up with a
total of about 17,414.000 at
the end of 1962. Governor
Rockefeller is invited cour
teously to put that expected
figure in his pipe and smoke
it.
II'HAT was it the Governor
' of North Carolina said to
the Governor of South Caro
lina In their famous conversa
tion? I've forgotten, and can't
find It In the books. But I'm
sure it had nothing to do with j tal investment. If the recession
the subject of which state I Is bad, it may take very dras
would be the biggest state in: tic measures to overcome it.
the Union on a given date. I On the merits, therefore.
Even their newsmen keep
apart, seeking contact with
Western newsmen rather than
with their Communist col
leagues. Chinas Tougher
At the conference table, the
Communist Chinese have tak
en an unmistakably tougher
line than their Russian allies.
The Russians have sought a
settlement, while the Chinese
have pushed an aggresisve
anti-Western line.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
(cl New York Htreld Tribune Syndicate
FOR A TAX CUT NOW
On the question of a tax
cut, with which the President
is now wrestling, the unde
cided issue is
whether to
for one reason
only. There is
some doubt
Llpomuui whet her, in
the few weeks that are left
before adjournment, the chair
man of the two key commit
tees, Rep. Mills and Sen. Byrd,
will allow Congress to vote.
The significant thing about
their veto is that almost cer
tainly the two chairmen will
not have it next winter. For
by that time, if, as it now
seems probable, our sluggish
economy has begun to recede,
tax reduction will go through
Congress by acclamation.
The chance of a Mills-Byrd
veto this summer, which is
what causes the President to
hesitate, is primarily due to
the fact that as yet recession
is only indicated and is not
yet being experienced. Can
the President induce Congress
to act to prevent a recession,
or are we doomed to wait for
a recession and then try to
reverse it? The fundamental
question is whether we have a
government which can act
with foresight, which can take
the stitch in time that will
save nine.
SINCE the Wall Street crash
at the end of May there
has been a sharp and rapid
change of responsible and ex
pert opinion. The crash alert
ed those who watched the
economy, causing them to ask
whether the Kennedy recov
ery of 1961 was going to peter
out before it went much fur
ther. There had been a very
few who had predicted this
last January when the Ad
ministration, using what had
proved to be erroneously op
timistic estimates, adopted a
restrictive and deflationary
fiscal policy.
The unfounded optimism
ended a few days after the
crash. The business reports
which have come in during
June and the first half of July
show that with a few excep
tions, automobile sales and
residential construction, the
recovery is sluggish and is
slowing down. Employment
and industrial activity, prof
its, inventory replace m e n t,
and capital Investment are so
sluggish that the recovery ap
pears to be nearing its end. It
would seem that by the onset
of winter there will be a re
cession. Prof. Samuelson says that
the peak of total profits was
In fact reached at the end of
last year and that the rate of
unemployment, which has
never gone below 5.4 per cent,
will from now on be rising.
lyE ARE not, let us repeat.
as yet In a recession. But
we are on the verge of one.
This is the critically important
time for the government to
act in order to stimulate the
expansion of economic activi
ty. The longer it waits, the
stronger will the medicine
have to be. It has already
waited six months too long,
and so it will need to use
stronger medicine today than
It would have needed last
January. If it waits until the
recession has actually begun,
the chances are that the com
paratively agreeable medicine
of a tax cut will not be
enough, and will need to be
supplemented by more gov
ernment spending.
The reason for this Is not
complicated and it is of great
significance to the question of
whether to cut taxes now or
to wait six months. The Imme
diate effect of a tax cut is to
stimulate consumer buying. If
this takes place when indus
try is working somewhere
near full capacity, the con
sumer demand will stimulate
industry to modernize and en
large its plant. This capital
spending will sustain the re
covery. On the other hand, if
the recession is on, with un
employment rising, with plant
utilization declining, the addi
tional consumer purch ases
will not tend to stimulate capi
zn
V .. ask for it this
5 r,vJ summer or to
Vfej wait until
'' 4 1 next winter.
?f The issue is as
V ji I yet undecided
Khrushchev's warning that
he would assist Peiping in
case of attack was his first
conciliatory gesture toward
Red China in many months.
Both deny the existence of
a split, and the Chinese es
pecially resent any reference
to it.
But the attitudes at Geneva
illustrate that it is there, and
that the Chinese more and
more are pushing their own
policies.
and ignoring all the political
consequences, the case for act
ing at once is a very powerful
one.
rESPITE all this, despite
" the weight of expert and
responsible opinion, the Presi
dent is hesitating because he
dreads the consequences of
asking for a tax reduction and
being refused by Congress. It
is true that if he tries for it
and fails, he may be vulner
able to the demagogic charge
that he has shaken public con
fidence and brought on the re
cession he tried to avert.
In 1957, when the coming of
the third Eisenhower reces
sion was indicated, President
Eisenhower was, so I under
stand, advised to reduce taxes.
He refused, not only because
he did not want to enlarge the
deficit but because he was
afraid that to talk about pre
venting a recession would
bring it on. So the President
waited. The result was an
enormous budgetary deficit,
the largest in time of peace, a
painful recession, and, we
may add, a might contribution
to the Republican defeat in
the election of 1960.
ptOR President Kennedy it
is, I believe, a greater risk
not to try than to try and to
fail. If he tries boldly for an
adequate tax cut to avert the
recession, he will gain much
if he succeeds. He will have
an excellent prospect of pro
longing the recovery, of mod
erating the eventual down
turn, and of proving decisive
ly that he does know how to
get the economy moving.
If he tries and fails to carry
Congress with him, he has as
President ample means to
make the country realize who
is responsible for refusing to
apply preventive medicine.
The country understands how
much better is prevention
than cure. For the President
to act when on the merits of
the problem he ought to act,
to go to the Congress now, to
go to the country now, has its
risks, and there may be some
political unpleasantness. But
It will be still more unpleas
ant to have a recession that
the Administration knew how
to prevent and didn't prevent,
and along with the recession
more unemployment, more
idle plants, sinking profits,
and a still deeper decline in
the stock market.
'THE President should, I be
- lieve, make the decision
and cut the Gordian knot. He
should present a simrjle and
temporary but fully adequate
reduction of corporation and
individual income taxes to
take effect not later than Sept.
1. For the best way to handle
a nettle is to grasp it firmly.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
"DECENT pyrotechnics in the Wall Street area have sent
-I, gagsters scurrying to the files to resuscitate stories that
helped ease scorched investors' pains during the 1929 crash.
n was taaie t-antor wno
suggested that the tick
ers print prices or, rope
instead of paper so that
at the close of the market
speculators coulc' hang
themselves. He also told
of one man who, despite
the collapse, actually
made a killing in the
market. He shot the man
ager of an A. and P.
A deflated "genius of
finance" admitted, "Since
I lost my last cent, half
my friends no longer
speak to me." He was
asked, "How about the other half?-' He replied, "They don't
know it yet!"
A visitor to an Indian reservation near Tucson noticed one oH
squaw who had an expression of aublime serenity on her face.
The visitor asked the squaw respectfully, "Wit., the world in its
present state, how do you manage to achieve such obviously
complete tranquility?'
'It's easy," confided the old squaw. "I take two tranquilizers,
three times a day,'
Gerald Kloas. preparing a eulogistic article on Ogden Nash for
a Milwaukee periodical, selected these as most tvpical of Nash s
unique poetic flashes:
1. I ait in an office at 244 Madison Avenue
And say to myself, you have a responsible job, havenue ?
2. He who attempts to tease the cobra
Is soon a sadder man, and sobra.
3. Affection is a noble quality:
It leads to generosity and Jollity.
But It also leads to breach of promise
If you go around lavishing it on red hat momise.
O b Bmnttl Cerf. CilUtouU4 b Kmc ruturu 6adKSe
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises tne-
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Those who insist that they
can forgive, but they can't
forget, fail to grasp that tha
essential end in forgiving con
sists in the forgetting.
Three new novels I strug
gled to get through and fi
nally had to give up on
are "The B i g Laugh," by
O'Hara, "Youngblood
Hawke," by Wouk, and
"The Sound of Bow Belles."
by Wiedman all of them
dull, pointless and long
winded; and all by com
mercially successful novel
ists. It's easy to say of a child
less wife, "What a pity sha
has no children of her own,
since she seems to be so good
with them" - but many a
woman who is "good" with
other's children cannot stand
up under the pressures and re
sponsibilities of her own.
We used to judge a man
by the company he kept; but
the modern organization man
is judged by the company that
keeps him.
What the suspicious
minded fail to understand
is the truth expressed in
Frank Crane's brief warn
ing: "You may be deceived
if you trust too much, but
you will live in torment if
if you do not trust enough."
The chief argument against
co - educational college is
that it forces the women to
adopt the intellectual atti
tudes of the men and a
woman's mind cannot, and
should not, work the sama
way as a man's.
I have never been able to
understand why so many auto
mobiles seem to stall on rail
road crossings; and, given
that, why so many motorists;
remain in their cars and are
hit by trains - there is some
thing most peculiar about a
man who stays behind tha
wheel of a car stalled on a
railroad track.
Most discussions about
the "appreciation" of art
are utterly futile; for. as
Vlaminck once said, "Good
painting is like good cook
ing; it can be tasted, but
not explained."
Advice is never appreciated
for if it turns out well, tha
recipient thinks it was his
own idea; and if it turns out
badly, he eternally blames
the giver.
A dictatorship always looks
"stronger" than a democracy,
until it begins to collapse
and then its disintegration is
swift and inevitable, while a
democracy gathers strength
and power under crisis.
What society calls a "sex
fiend" is, in nine cases out
of 10, some pathetic crea
ture who is incapable of sex
at all.
I am convinced that heart
attacks are much more com
mon among men than among
women not because men are
more constitutionally predis
posed toward them but be
cause women provide each
other with therapy by their
mutual confessions of weak
ness and worry, while men
bottle up their deepest con
cerns until the cork finally
blows out.
Stop