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Medford and Jackson County
History from the tiles of The
Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years afjo.
10 YEARS AGO
July 28. 1952 (Saturday)
Rogue River valley orchard
oH fluid dav scheduled
for Aug. 1 by the Jackson
County Fruit Growers League.
Voters of the proposed Med
ford rural fire district sanc
tioned Us formation by a ma
jority of 246 votes in an elec
tion Friday. .
20 YEARS AGO
July 26. 1942 (Sunday)
Medford and Rogue valley
residents purchase $20,000 in
war bonds and stamps in pay
ment for rides In Army Jeeps
during special bond sale
drive.
From Arthur Perry's "Y e
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Oregonian editorially calls
the Italians 'utter scamps.'
War is war, but there is no
use being vituperative and
vitriolic."
30 YEARS AGO
July 26. 1932 (Tuesday)
Two Janitors for new Jack
son county courthouse at
Main St. and Oakdale ave. se
lected from 64 applicants for
Jobs.
Medford man pleads guilty
before U.S. Commissioner Vic
tor Tengwald to charges of
smoking a cigarette while
traveling through National
Forest lands.
40 YEARS AGO
July 26. 1922 (Wadnasday)
Oregon assistant attorney
general requests all persons
having Information on "night
riding outrages, in Jackson
county" to appear and give
testimony.
Funds totalling $5,580, con
tributed by Rockefeller Foun
dation and the State of Ore
gon, insure establishment of
full time Jackson county
health officer.
50 YEARS AGO
July 26, 1912 (Friday)
"Very good prices" report
ed for Rogue valley pears; lo
cal products being sold for
$2 a box In New York.
Pacific and Eastern railroad
offers round trips to Butte
Falls from Medford and back
for $1 to persons desiring to
play tennis on Untie Kails
courts and listen to free band
concerts there each night.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ar ten correct is superior;
aven ar sight Is excellent; (Ire at
six Is eood.
1. Who were buried In
Potter's Fields?
2. With the perfection of
what Instrument do you asso
ciate the name Sperry?
3. A pint of oil will cover
I water surface about 100
square feet, 50 square feet,
or one acre?
4. Does the United States
Supreme Court hold sessions
the year around?
5. Was the Declaration of
Independence signed before
or after the Boston Tea
Party?
6. In which State Is Cape
Cod?
7. Is the polar bear a warm
blooded, or cold blooded
animal?
8. Who was Mary Todd?
9. What bridge do you as
sociate with the height of
aalesmanshlp?
10. What did Dorothea Dlx
bring about in the United
States?
Answarsi 1. Paupers. 2. Gy
roscope. 3. On acre. 4. No. 5.
After. 6, Massachusetts. 7.
Warmblooded. 8. Wit of
Abraham Lincoln. 8. Brook
lyn Bridge. 10. Stale Mental
Hospitals.
THURSDAY. JULY 26. 1962
Tax Cut
It is becoming more and more evident that we
can look forward to a substantial cut in federal
income taxes, and in the not too distant future.
Seldom do we recall a major piece of legisla
tion such as this that has been so widely heralded
and supported. Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia is
about the only one on record against it, and such
diverse groups as the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce and the AFL-CIO are both on record for it,
although with slightly differing approaches.
The national columnists are almost unanimous
in hailing a coming tax cut, and Sylvia Porter
has devoted column after column, not only to
explaining the rationale for a cut, but also going
into detail as to how it could affect both individ
uals and corporations.
e e
THE principal reason for a tax cut at this time
is to give a major shot in the arm to an econ
omy which, while far from stagnant, is also not
growing and prospering the way it should, result
ing in high unemployment, unused plant capacity,
and a growth rate far less than that of many other
industrialized nations.
That, it appears fairly well agreed, is reason
enough. . ; .
Reasons against also appear impelling, at
first glance, although economists argue that the
stimulating effect of a tax cut will do much to
offset the resulting decrease in income, and that
later, when things are booming again, will be the
time to make up the deficits.
A SIDE from the macro-economics of the case,
"for which we have to take the words of the
experts, the micro-economics in effect a raise
in take-home pay are
template.
If it comes to pass, and as noted it is appear
ing more certain every day, most of us will have
an extra fist-full of dollars each pay day. As these
are received and spent, they will continue their
circulation and re-circulation, creating a total ef
fect larger than they are themselves.
"' This pleasant prospect, combined with the
promise that the economy will benefit overall
thereby, make the case for a tax cut, and soon, a
compelling one. E. A.
Point Reyes And Others
The House has given final passage to a bill
to create Point Reyes National Seashore. Only
Senate concurrence in minor House amendments
and the signature of the President remain before
it becomes law.
The battle for the bill has taken three years,
and its approval gives particular pleasure to those
of us who believe that now is the time to preserve
as much as possible of our heritage of natural
beauty, before it is gone for other purposes, and
it is too late.
Point Reyes will become the third U. S. Na
tional Seashore, administered by the National
Park Service. The other two are at Cape Hatteras
and at Cape Cod.
DOINT Reyes is on the Pacific Coast only a few
miles north of San Francisco. The Chronicle
comments :
"(It will be) a magnificent national park in the heart oC
a metropolitan area which by the year 2000 will have a
population of 12 million. Future generations will cherish
the foresight in seizing the opportunity to preserve un
spoiled an area of scenic, recreational and biologic interest
while there was yet time."
There was a special urgency about Point
Reyes, in comparison the the Oregon Dunes Na
tional Seashore, for instance. California's coast
line, in contrast to Oregon s, is largely in private
ownership, and "development" (meaning sub
divisions, supermarkets, parking lots, and so on)
had already begun in the area.
THERE are other areas where National Sea-
those in Texas and, perhaps, in the Indiana
Dunes. Some day, we hope, the Oregon Dunes will
receive this soit of national recognition, which
can come in no other way.
One other aspect of the National Seashore
which merits a wider understanding is the fact
that they are different, both in character and in
purpose, from the great scenic National Parks.
The latter are largely preservative in nature,
so that Americans may enjoy their beauty and
their inspirational values uiiimpaied for genera
tions to come. The Seashores will put far more
emphasis on active outdoor recreation camping,
swimming, hiking, and related uses.
THERE is not onlv room for more of all of these,
there is a growing need, and not only at the
National Park level. ' j
Other federal agencies must devote more!
time, attention and money to the recreational as- j
poets of their lands, and so must the states ami
counties and cities, if the needs of the people for!
outdoor recreation are to be served.
Fortunately, this fact is now recognized as!
never before, but it has been quite a long time I
coming. In some places and in some situations itj
is too late to preserve the best land areas for j
optimum public use.
In the west, and in Oregon in particular, we !
are lucky. It is not, in most cases, too late. The 1
need has been recognized, and action is being;
taken not, perhaps, as strong and quick and
effective as we could wish. But we're on our way. i
E. A. .
Prospect
pleasant indeed to con
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contrary is often the case.
Semantic Approach '
To ihe Editor: One of the
big obstacles to world peace
is a semantic block. We talk
about peace when we mean
inflicting the ideas of one
group on another.
Thus, although our object is ;
true peace, we are using con-1
trovcrsial methods to obtain !
it. i
It should be obvious thai, if i
we look for non-controversial I
methods of moving toward
peace, we can bypass much of i
our current difficulty. '
There are many ''peaceful ;
peace projects" which arc I
compatible with the Ameri
can, Russian and pacifist !
viewpoints. To name only a I
few,- we have support of the ;
UN, cultural interchance, and
expansion of world congresses
of scientists. j
Once we focus our atton-
tion on "peaceful peace prot
ects" our semantic and real
blocks should disappear.
J. Srolt
350 Fifth ave..
New York 1, N.Y.
Refuge Bill
To the Editor: First I wish
to thank you and your staff
for the excellent coverage on
S. 1088, an act to promote, the
conservation of the nation's
wildlife resources on the Pa
cific Flyway in the Tule
Lake, Lower Klamath, and
Upper Klamath Wildlife Ref
uges in Oregon and Califor
nia. This bill is in the hands of
the Irrigation and Reclama
tion Subcommittee of the
House Interior and Insular
Affairs committee. Walter
Rogers of Texas is chairman
of the subcommittee and
Wayne N. Aspinall is chair
man of the full committee.
A hearing was held on July
20. The opposition (irrigation
ists of tile Klamath Imitation
District) proposed an amend
ment that provides for the dis
posal to private ownership of
the Straights Line Unit of the
Upper Klamath Refuge. These
6.447 acres along the slate
line provide much of the food
for the ducks and goose and
furnishes the best public
hunting grounds in Oregon.
Preserving this land as part
of the refuge is one of the
purposes of S. lHSH. These
same individuals have been
trying to get title to these
lands for many years.
Perhaps many of the duek
and goose hunters (if this area
do not realize the importance
of the passage of S. liifia in its
present form In case tins land
would be sold mueh of then
present shonfng grounds in
Oregon would In lost.
Congressman AI Ullman of
the Second district of Oregon
should be urized to try In get
passage of tins bill without the
loss of any of the present
refuges. His address is House
Office Iluilding. Washington
25, D C. Hy sending copies of
Ihe letters to Walter Rogers
and Wayne X. Aspinall. same
address, your effort will be
three times as eftoetive.
Paul 11. Weiland
(Col. I' S.A. Het )
2431 Kast Mam st.
Medford
Hit and Run
To ttie Kditor: Hit and run
drivers - are thov s.ared. ig
norant, stupid or ,tut pl:u:i
cruel But tho one Ilia! rail
off the road on purpo-e an.!
hit a little white poodle is just
plain cruet, and of t ie lour-.?
form of the human t n e Thi!
little dog w.isn t boihei uu;
you nod no er had Hy doin :
that you killed a ret cv
denr to a little girl hea"
But you wouldn 1 K".hv
that. You ate uist i.'o ;u i n
ignorant and s' nu.t .
tie deg was s t!i-.. ,
driveway at In.' t'-.e e:
four feet from the t .t. ;
road. I don't like to u i;'i
body any bad iurk flui I hone
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
On First, Please"
something happens to some
thing very dear to you. and
you will know how my daugh
ter fuels.
Harold Brerrtlovo
!)D!) Sou'h Stage rd.
Medlord
Doctrine Explained
To the Kditor: The Jesus
and God oniy doctrine neecis
to be explained since so many
fail to know or understand it.
This doctrine teaehes that
there is one person (Jesus or
God) who is the Father, Son
and Holy Ghost all combined
in one. hut the Bible teaches
there is the Father God (Lord I
God) and Jesus (the Pen of
God). The Holy Ghost pro
reeds from God. but comes in
Christ's name. There is ONE
God and ONE mediator be
tween God and men. That
mediator is Jesus (1 Timothy i
2-5). ' !
It is impossible for Jesus to
be God .since no man has ever
seen God. and no man cm see
him and live. Multitude saw
Jesus and lived. So he cannot
he God, just ids Sun. Tim
Trinity is no mystery since
Jesus had a Heavenly Father'
and an earthly MnMier. So he
is not illegal. Then the Holy
Ghost proceeds from God but
comes in Christ's name. So
how can there be any mystery :
about if No mystery about
Ian earthly son's origin. The
Jesus and God only fail to
I see this and try io justify;
i themselves and doctrine by i
I calling the Trinity a my.si
Since the carnal or finite
07
(c) New Y'i
k Hnralcl
THE RISKIEST BET
Washington - The agree
ment on Laos, which Secre
tary of State Dean Husk has
1 ' "K ju--t signed at
i -. G c n c v a , is
: t' j cei'l.iiniy the
i ... "I r i s kiest b e t
;-''. j tiie United
S t a t e s has
; ' "t i made in any
''acre e m e n t
wil'n tiie Sov
jl .t , i ltcs Mtice tile
il,J or;l n Frank
Aisi.p" 1 i n R o o s c -volt's
wartime negotiations
with Josef Stalin.
Hence it is well to note, at
at the very outset, that this
risky bcl lias been made witli
the unanimous concurrcnee
oi the leaders of both political
parties in Congress, ineludmi;
lornie
'll'.e
Flesa
n: F.s-'iiuo",
is ::'.it :.v t
of 1.:,... x
a goei-n:r
:e I
IK".
I-.
h e a d c d bv the c m:
"neulr.iiist." Prinee S.ue
rhetima. and including
scnta'.ives of tee (.'emu
as well as tl-e tn'o V.'.
factions in Lao.- T :e e
lie lost if any et li:e loi:
things oi cur.
I N.
THIRST, it wii
balance w
I be le
up gnvcrnniciu oi i T.ur
vamia Phou.'.ia s'li'.'ts i
emi tii tin' C 'e.'.unu'.i
if V.
'I
Loving Finns Arc Determinedly
N'sisfral, But Emotionally With West
By PHIL. NEWSOM
UPI Foreign TJcws Analyst
HeMnki - Thre U a sly,
popular joke which Finns
; sometimes tell
in the privacy
of their
homes.
"V'hiit do you
think of that
sjrerit Russian
inventor, Pro
fessor Reg lit
patoff?" The
American vis
itor i asked.
r-r-
When the vis
Kwom itor CXprcSSc5
his puzzlement, the .uugliiny
Finn translates it for him. The
translations:
Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
Thereby he expresses- his
own opinion of Russian claims
to have invented everything
from the bicycle to wireless,
By law and in recognition
of the fads of life, the Finn
is determinedly neutral. But
emotionally he is pro-Western,
sometimes violently so.
mind is contrary to God and'
not subect to him they fail to ;
know this. The Holy Ghost
i gi es us a sound mind. So if ;
i we are still confused we lack '
j the Spirit of God.- For this
j spirit will suiide us into all t
'truth, and teach us all things'
to such an extent that we!
' need no man teach us (St. t
John 14-1 . Chap. 15-26, Chap, i
16 - 7 to 14, I John 2 - 20-27.) j
jand wilt reveal the deep
tilings of God. So we arc sup
posed to know and understand
the Trinity. If not we will be
deceived by false doctrine.
If all churches and minis
ters are of God. where are
the many false prophets .and
Christs tha! Jesu.s commanded
us to beware of? If we have
no rigid to judge, why did
Jesus command us to judge
righteous ud:;ment and to be
ware of them'.'
Since the Jesus and God
only believe in. all three, peo
ple think Ihcy teach the
Trinity. But it. is how they
leach it thai counts. For they
s.'.v find became man. there-
by heenmin;: toe antichrists,
deeeivers and liars and trans-
Instead of our misunder
ing Biliy Graham's state
ments, they just fail to know
his "God t doctrine. For
he teaches it more than once
in the papers. Too many reject
the Bible for churches and
pre ach'.n-s.
Mrs. G. C. Cunningam
I Maple st.
Central Point. O.'e
By Joseph Alson
itiime Fvnrttrata
Ti
istic odds against winning the
het are at least ihree-to-one.
Many persons hold that the
odds are c en more unfavor
able, s i m p 1 y because the
North Vie.namese cannot af
iord to let t.ie U.S. win this
bet in Laes.
voir
Til Vie: Nam. as now
constituted, is not a vi
s'aie by any possible
abl.
st. 1:.
the
le.e.l production, even
old days, was never
auyw ',, re ncariy sufficient to
teed its population. Since tiie
Conmumisls took over, its al
ready inadequate rice output
has drooped s'uirply. In addi
tion, this denied area lias been
i p to
en I'
the
'V nu
form i
and hi
new
Cannnnn.i t
reau-
..eons. Xorth
on:y satellite
'. . C.MiimuniU
r..uts of oireet
f loans, from
i lYkui
.:lv t h
::i Yitt
s.ibiv i
.is en t;
! N.en,
: and Moscow. I- or
e same reasons,
Nam is almost ir
rivett to cet its
e w t .dlh of South
with its rich rice
No
L::
h
Vietnamese,
s die only
of
ek on
e it is
SU'P
Nam.
m. An I
rou'e e
. and p.
v:te b. '
L
It is also remarked in Fin
! land that one can select one's
1 friends, but he cannot select
j his neighbors. .
i In this far northeastern por
tion of Europe, the Finns often
feel terribly alone. Two recent
wars against Russia have
proven to them the futility of
expecting anything but sym
pathy from their friends. Sym-
1 pathy is a poor return for
blood.
' In the winter war against
Russia, which lasted for three
and a half months just after
'the start of World War II,
'they lost Karelia and were
(faced with the task of reset
tling 400,000 persons.
In tile war which began in
j 1941 and lasted until 1944,
jthey lost the all - weather
I Arctic port of Petsamo and
1 4.5 million Finns paid repara
tions of S370 million,
i The Finns know they can
not tweak the tail of the Rus
Uian bear too hard.
They also know that of all
the free nations which emerg
ed after World War I, they
alone remain free.
But it has dimmed neither
their humor nor their deter
mination to retain their inde
pendence. In the last national elec
tions, some 450,000 Finns vot
ed Communist. Many of these
the Finns regard simply as
protest votes. Guesses as to
the number of hard-core Com
munists in the country run to
about 35,000 to 40.000.
This correspondent asked
one Finn what this hard core
would do in the case of an
other war with Russia.
It wouldn't much matter,
he shrugged. They'd all be
dead in the first five minutes.
In Ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Explanaiory
note in the
news:
The busts of the heads of
i President Washington, Presi-
dent Jefferson, President Lin
i coin and President Theodore
i Roosevelt - which are carved
on Mount Rushmore, in the
I -Mount Rushmore Memorial in
I the Black Hills of South Da
j kota and which were shown
' in (he American part of the
i Telstar world-wide television
i snow ine oiner aay
i porttonate to men
are pro
40'5 feet
tall
lyiilCH is to say:
' The carved head of
George Washington, from
chin to top, reaches as high
on the Mount Rushmore cliff
as a five-story building, or
about 60 feet.
The other heads are of simi
lar size.
w
HENCE came the idea of
Memorial?
It came from the brain of
I Gulzon Borglum, who design
ed the memorial and super
' vised most of its work. Mount
Rushmore is in the Black
Hills, 22 miles from Rapid
City, South Dakota. It rises
6200 feet above sea level and
I more than 500 feet above the
narrow valley at its base,
i Gutzon Borglum died in
early 1941. when the memor
ial was nearly finished. His
' son, Lincoln, who had helped
' him with the work, completed
I the task.
T THINK everyone who
watched the Telstar pro
gram yesterday will agree
that inclusion of these figures
of four great American Presi
dents was an inspired
thought.
Nothing could have been
more appropriate.
President called in all the Re
publican and Democratic Con
gressional leaders and pre
scn'.td the stark alternatives
to Ihem in stark language.
Tiie alternatives, then as la
ter, w ere to seek Laotian neu
trality by some such contrap
tion as has now been agreed
upon at Geneva, or to send
American troops to fight in
: Laos. The vote was unani
mous and vociferous against
sending troops.
At other stages in the Lao-
; tian aflair. the Congressional
leaders of both parties have
pitain been consulted, with
' precisely similar results. Li
.nidi'.ion. when US. troops
were .sent into Thailand. Pres
ident Eisenhower's advice
a ss sought en one of the oc
t s ens when CIA Director
John McCone flew to Gettys
hur'. to gie Eisenhower a
frank briefing on all world
de elonmcnts - which is now
a ta bular pr.ietiee The Fisen
u iwcr ad ice was, "Avoid en
t mu'emcnt. at almost any
In the f,
n.ininious
ee of this kind of
onpe
riot
ition. has a
In aneiupt
my military
eas. beeause
other aiter
to American
iet m Laos is
'ie forcgoinc
y i, iie de-
tinlf t'itrc-
n e'ieiue;y
th
ova r
lers tiie
i nskv
If tee I
e end. '
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
. c New York Herald Tbune Syndicate
TROUBLED CONTINENTS
From Peru U) Algeria, from
the Congo to South,. Vietnam,
we are being reminded how
long and com
plicated is the
great revolu
tion of our
age, the awak
ening of the
backward peo
ples. In Asia
and Africa the
o 1 d empires
have fallen re
cently: they
Lippmann
fell more than a century ago
in the Americas. But to
achieve acceptable self-government
is enormously diffi
cult, as witness our own Civil
War. -;''.-
In Latin America we are
engaged in a unique experi
ment. We have realized- that
without a rise in the standard
of life of the mass of the peo
ple, there can be no enduring
stability. But we have real
ized also that social progress
is unlikely as long as the gov
ernment is in the hands of a
small and corrupt ruling class.
So we find ourselves trying
to induce a peaceable and a
very gradual internaUsocial
and political revolution in or
der that there may be gov
ernments capable of using
productively the capital funds
we are willing to lend them.
AS we know from Peru and
Argentina and elsewhere,
It is not going to be easy to
reap the results of a -revolution
without having a., revo
lution. The privileged- ruling
classes with their connections
in the military establishments
do not surrender voluntarily
to the Alliance for Progress.
While we have to keep on
trying the best we- can where
we can, we must not delude
ourselves. The power and in
fluence of the United States
in this hemisphere has de
clined sharply since the early
years of this century. Be
tween the two World Wars
we renounced solemnly and
repeatedly the right of mili
tary intervention in this hem
isphere, and while we can
still make a discreet show
of force in Caribbean waters,
in all of Latin America we
have influence only as we
earn it.
Insofar as the Alliance for
Progress depends on political
and social change inside the
Latin American countries, it
has no power behind it and
only some influence.
Tr progress
is
difficult in
much of Latin
America,
which has so long been self
governing, it is much more
difficult in Africa and Asia.
In Africa it is so difficult that
it is no exaggeration to say
that the critical factor is the
attitude of the great powers.
The Congo illustrates this
vividly. There have been two
main chapters in the Congo
story. In the first chapter,
which began with the precipi
tate Belgian withdrawal, the
problem was to insulate the
Congo and seal it off from
the cold war. This was done
successfully by Dag Hammar
skjold's daring use of the
United Nations, and now, a
year later, we are able to say
that the Soviet Union and the
NATO powers are not en
gaged in a military struggle
within the Congo.
The second chapter, which
is not concluded, has been the
effort to induce the Congolese
under Adoula in Leopoldville
and under Tshombc in Katan
ga to unite. But the Congo
lese leaders alone arc capa
ble of doing this only if the 1 of all is youth whose impa-non-African
powers on whom ; tience is sullen, and old age
they depend push them into
some kind ot union. Behind
Adoula the main power is the
United States government.
Behind Tshombc the main
power consists of large pri
vate interests in Great Brit
ain and Belgium. The keys to
peace in the Congo are in Lon
don, Brussels, and Washing
ton. IN Algeria we see once more
how wide is the gap be
tween liberation and self-government.
At the moment the
prospects are not too bad be- i
cause there is no evidence j
that any of Ihe great powers I
is intervening seriously in the
Algerian dispute. If interven- j
tion can be avoided, the vital i
interests of the Algerians will
work for a close connection
with France.
As for Southeast Asia, my
own view is that the region
cannot be stabilized locally. ;
The future depends on the
powers and in the last analy-
sis on Ihe two great powers. I
the Soviet Union and the I
United States. Neither of them
to be sure, is all-powerful.
'For both Russia and Amer-1
' ica. the region is on the outer
I edges of their two spheres
i of influence and jviwer The
Soviet Union his much influ
ence in North Vietnam, as we .
I have in South Vietnam. But
neither is all-powerful. Mora
importantly the Soviet Union
probably has decisive influ
ence in preventing Red China
from starting a great war by
trying to overrun Southeast
Asia. And we of course, have
the power to decide that the
action in Vietnam shall re
main limited.
So the keys to peace, or,
shall we say, to not much
war, in South Vietnam are in
Moscow and in Washington.
rjiHE World Court has now
-"- delivered i t s advisory
opinion on the legal right ot
the UN to assess its members
for peace-keeping operations,
as in the Gaza Strip and in
the Congo. Assuming, as is
likely, that the General As
sembly will accept the advis
ory opinion, the question will
be whether deliberate non
payers, particularly the Soviet
Union and France, will rec
ognize the law and obey it.
If they do not, it will be a
serious blow to the UN, not
only to its solvency but its
status as a universal society
to keep the peace. The United
States has a powerful inter
est in saving the UN. For
while the UN is unable to
deal with all the world's trou-"
bles, it has shown that it can
deal with some of its troubles,
when they are critical and im
portant. If Russia and France refuse
to pay up, the right course for
us will be, it seems to me, to
say that the UN is at least as
important as a Laotian prince,
to resist the destruction of the
UN by rallying its supporters
to meet the deficit, and then
to call for a UN constitution
al convention to reappraise
and revise the charter.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c) Field Enterprises Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Ninety per cent of what
passes for "conversation" is
not communication as much
as medication - it is used to
make the speaker feel better,
either by depreciating others
or by inflating one's self.
A century ago, Frederick
Amiel observed that "There,
is no curing a sick man who
believes himself in health"
and this is even truer of
. those sick in mind than sick
in body.
When a person makes a
promise that goes against the
grain of his nature, we would
be wiser to rely on his nature
than on his promise.
It is ridiculously inaccur
ate to call racing drivers
"daredevils," for they are
scrupulously cautious about
their equipment, driving
conditions, and all safety
measures; it is the ordinary
motorist who is a foolish
daredevil, driving too fast
in an over-powered car un
der bad conditions, and tur
roundedby thousands of
lunatics like himself.
.
No other we. a so perfectly
expresses the emotion it des
ignates, as "flabbergasted."
Loye is a form of under
standing, mora than an
emotion; and mora damaga
is done in the world by
love without understand
ing, than by hate.
Y'outh is most attractive
when its basic mood is humor
ous impatience; and old age
is most attractive when its
basic mood is humorous resig
nation; while least attractive
: whose resignation is bitter.
A man will do mora to
preserve his image of him
self no matter how dis
torted than for his coun
try, religion, or his family.
The secret slogan of all re
formers is really "Let's find
out w hat people unlike rne
are doing, and stop them!"
A celebrity is comfortable
only when he ii in tha com
pany of other celebrities,
so that they can relax and
pretend to be non-celebrities
together; this is why a
hostess who invite a "lion"
to her party generally finds
it an unsuccessful venture,
for no lion likes to be trap
ped in a den of Daniels.
The ultimate in tact is the
ability to be efficient without
being offensive, and not one
efficient person In a thousand
has this tact. Efficiency, some
has this tact. Efficiency,
somehow, is usually accom
paried by an aura of self,
righteousness, combined with
the uneasy feeling that the in-
efficient are more charming.
and hnuld be punished for it.
Fatigue always brings on
regression; as N I I t .
sche shrewdly knew, lon9
before Freud: "When w
're tird, wa are attacks
by i d a a t wa ciiquereJ
long ago."