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Medfcrd end Jackson County
History from the files ol The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Ocl. 1, 1952 (Wednesday)
George Baker Dunkin was
taken to Oregon state prison
In Salem this morning by
Shertfl Howard Gault to be
gin a life sentence lor the
June 24 slaying of a state po
lice officer.
Two more cases of infantile
paralysis in Jacksor. county
were reported by the health
office today.
20 YEARS AGO
Ocl. 1, 1942 (Thursday)
Mrs. Lcla Rogers, mother of
motion picture star Ginger
Rogers, named Jackson coun
ty war savings chairman.
From Arthur Perry's "Yc
Smudge Pot" column: "Farm
ers are so busy these days they
have no time to come to town
and tell how busy they .ire.
All are behind In their fret
ting over the lack of rain for
fall plowing."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 1. 1932 (Saturday)
State and county authori
ties state reports of murder in
Kane creek are only a hoax.
Total of 250 new voter reg- j
lstrations expected.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 1, 1922 (Sunday)
Court delays decision in
Jackson county Ku Klux Klan
case; Klan attorneys demand
report of grand jury on mat
ter. Medford radio station
KFAY recommended for mar
ket, crop and weather report
license: the Mail Tribune
prints dully lists of cities from
which persons have reported
hearing the new radio station.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 1. 1912 (Tuesday)
Army corps of engineers
starts staking out roads in
Crater Lake National park
for construction work early
In spring of 11)13.
Leading German business
man visits at home of Regi
nald Parson here while study
ing local orcharding methods.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine er ten correct it superior;
seven or eight it excellent; five of
sii la good.
1. "Will you give your O. K.
to this"? Is O.K. as used in
the sentence a noun, verb or
adjective?
2. Is an onrirnlogist one
who Interprets bumps on the
head, tea leaves, or dreams?
3. Which slate i. nick
named "Bayou State"?
4. In freezing, water ex
pands about one-fifth, one
ninth, or one-clcvcnth in vol
ume? 5. In what part of the body
Is the femoral artery?
6. Name the capital of
Colombia.
7. Is a prawn a chessman,
the tine of a fork, caramel
candy, or a seafood delicacy?
8. Docs a storage battery de
liver direct or alternating
current?
0. Which state of the Unit
ed States has a capllal named
for a mythical bird?
10. In which two months of
the year do the equinoxes oc
cur? Answers: 1. Noun. 2. One
who Interpret! dreams. 3.
Mississippi. 4. One-eleventh.
S. Leg. 6. Bogala. 7, Seafood
delicacy. 8. Direct. 9. Aritona
(Phoenix). 10. March and September.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1361!
Tax
Some weeks ago the Eugene Register-Guard,
looking ahead to the state's fiscal problems in the
next biennium, "laid it on the line" for candi
dates for state office to spell out just how they
would close the dollar gap between probable ex
penditures and "expectable" revenues.
The Pendleton E'.st Oregonian echoed the
call, and so did the Medford Mail Tribune. The
Statesman suggested that the papers themselves
might offer their proposals. At Medford, legis
lative candidates have written letters to the edi
tor, discussing the problem coming to close grips
with it.
While these notables are walking all around
the financial hole the state faces, come July 1,
1963, the Associated Oregon Industries steps up
with its contribution to a solution. This tax-conscious
body might be expected to recommend
budget-slashing, cutting costs to the Procrustean
bed of income. It doesn't do that. Its program,
outlined by Robert Oslund, tax agent for Georgia
Pacific Corporation, before the Chamber of Com
merce Monday is much more realistic.
A LSO one might expect the business group to
call for a sales tax rather than imposing any
increase in the income tax rates, and of course
avoiding any reimposition of a state property tax.
Again, the AOI is realistic. It knows the voting
record of Oregonians on a sales tax. Also it fig
ures that a sizable income tax would still be re
quired even if a general sales tax were imposed.
What the AOI board recommends is this:
1. Levy a cigarette tax. That is a selective
sales tax and has frequently been rejected by
the voters. However, now that 47 states tax cig
arettes, it is argued that it is time for Oregon
to fall in line.
2. Enact a broad-based income tax. This
would do away with current deductions, except
in business operations; but would permit a lower
rate schedule. The effect of this no-deduction
plan would be to increase the state income tax
one pays and reduce his federal income tax since
payments for state taxes are all deductible on the
federal returns. There would be a one per cent
minimum tax on all; and a tax credit of $20 for
each dependent. A 20 per cent surtax would be
added to the regular tax.
MOW we have a program, at least.
' This one conies with certain advantages:
the ice has been broken for it in previous sessions
of the Legislature. Gov. Hatfield has supported
what he calls a net receipts tax, which the pro
posal employs. The income tax structure is fa
miliar; the machinery for collecting it is in oper
ation. This will not satisfy those who want to roll
more of the cost of government on consumers via
the sales lax. With, no sign that that alley is open
now any more than in the past, sales tax advo
cates do well to consider alternatives.
"TMiL mathematics of the dollar gap can he
arrived at rather closely. This biennium will
end with over $80 million less in the treasury than
when it began. The Basic school support law has
built-in requirements that insure a substantial in
crease in appropriations. Higher Education will
cost considerably more.
The estimate of added revenues required runs
from $10 to $-15 million.
The Associated Industries of Oregon offers
its plan, Let others with other plans come for
ward. The business of selection falls to the Legis
lature, with reservation to the people of the power
of rejection through the referendum, if they are
unhappy with the choice. Charles A. Sprague
in The Oregon Statesman.
Time to Register
These "evervbodv-rcgister-evcrvbodv-vote"
drives are not in the public interest. They turn the (
big decisions of government over to those who
don't really care enough to inform themselves on j
the candidates and issues. For those who do care, j
there is little excuse for not registering and vot-;
ing. Oregon has no property requirement, no poll !
tax, only a moderate literacy tost. j
And registering is so easy.
All this is bv wav of pointing out that the
registration deadline for voting in the Nov. (5 pri
mary is 8 p.m., Oct. (.
a a
a fiiTL'ii :r u l
t wir.i 1 1 1 1 1 t Rj,iMfr n ut nits iiim-i i t-j; i-
tered, if he has moved since the last election, '
if in that time he has chanued address or name,
or if he failed to vote in either the 10(52 primary ,
election or the I'.UiO general election. He need not!
have voted in both of those. Rut he must have !
voted in one or the other if he is to vote this time
without re-registering. !
A person who will turn 21 between Oct. 6
and election day may register now. '
And then, let us pray, the registered voter will ,
cast a vote that is sincere, intelligent, and backed
up by a study of the important matters on the
ballot. Eugene Register-Guard.
Director of Patrols Visiting in Medford
Martin Holmes, Oregon
state director ot school sate
ty patrols, will be in Mcd
lurd this week, visiting area
school to discuss the state
plan for school patrols.
Capt, Civile Fichtner of
the Medford police depart
ment will accompany Holmes
on his .school visitations
Today, Holmes and Kiel
per visited Lone I'ine, Wtl
con, Roosevelt and Lincoln
school. Tuesday, they will vis-
Plans
It Hoover, Jefferson, Wash
ington and Jackson schools.
On Wednesday, Howard, West
Side and St. Mary's scheols
will be visited. Thursday,
Ruch, Jacksonville and Grif
tin Creek schools are sched
uled, and on Friday, they will
visit Oak Grove school.
Holmes and Fichtner will
spend about an hour at eacli
school talking with the school
patrol numbers.
MUDFORD
"Fellow in Mississippi Is Determined To
Enroll Here Shall We Let Him In?"
ilJiiB
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Matter of Fact
fci New York Herald
Nixon's Uphill Task
Log Angeles - Out here in
California, the new job Rich
ard M. Nixon has taken on
looks even
harder than it
appears from
a distance.
When he de
cided to run
for the Calif
ornia Gover
norship, the
former Vice
President see me d a
beat the genial,
sure
rather bumbling incumbent,
Pat Brown. But with election
day only a few weeks away,
the careful Field poll of Cal
ifornia shows Brown with 48
per cent of the vole, Nixon
witli 42 per cent, and 10 per
cent undecided,
If the Field poll is right, in
fact, Brown has a close-lo-cominanding
lead. At Nixon
headquarters, they cite their
own poll.". These show Brown
with a lead of only one or
two percentage points. Even
at Nixon headquarters, there
fore, the fact that Brown is
now in Ihe lead is bravely
but glumly admillod.
rIMIIS turn of events has
- clearly taken Nixon and
his managers by surprise; but
this Is perhaps their fault, for
It is now clear that they made
a fundamental miscalculation
at the very outlet. They too
thought that it would be easy
for Nixon, the major nation
al figure who had carried
California against John F.
Kennedy, to beat the wretched
Brown, who had made such
a public ass of himself at the
Democratic Convention in
19(il).
In the first place, however,
It is never easy for a Repub
lican to carry this state, and
in the second place, there are
two quite different Pat
Drowns, and when he chose
to sock the Governorship,
Nixon necessarily took on the
wrong Brown.
The Brown Nixon hoped to
take on was the man who
sounds like the cave of the
winds when he tries to dis
cuss International problems
and who looks so strangely
inept when he is caught up
in the grim cross-currents of
high political strategy. But
the Brown Nixon actually
took on was the Governor of
California, who is quite an
other person.
'PHIS oilier Brown has spent
- a large part of his life as
a California stale official. lie
knows the stale, its people,
and Hp problems from A to
Z. He has clear, decided
views about how the prob-1
lems ought to he solved. And!
although the problems grow
more difficult by the day, be
cause of California's stagger
ing growth, he has made a
pretty good Governor, as most
local Republicans grudgingly
admit.
Nixon, whose ambitions
have always been national,
nhvlou-lv failed to under
stand this oilier Brown, whose
strength at home derives from
Ihe same quality that makes
Brown a weak national fig-,
tire - namely, his total lack
of interest hi anything much
beyond the state lines of Cal
ifornia. In addition. Nixon
had a piece of extremely j
rough luck in the person of
the local John Birch Society j
hero. ,loeph Shell, who ran ;
against the former Vice-Pros-1
ident in the Republican Gub
ernatorial primary and rolled
up no Ic-s than 30 per cent
of the vote.
Nixon's struggles with Shell
and the extreme right-wing
Republicans h;id the effect, as
one of the Nixon managers 1
told this reporter, "of taking
awav a lot of Dick's national
international glanmr and
making him look like a state
politician again." The need
to nring m:oii s richt-winc
following bark into t.te fold
has also rather adversly
Alsnp
bet to
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
fected Nixon's campaigning,
at least to date.
"lyE'RE going to clean up
' the mess in Sacramen
to," he said at his campaign
opening press conference. But
the "mess in Sacramento" has
not had the advance adver
tising that the "mess in Wash
ington" had had in 1952. In
the same fashion, when Nix
on sonorously promises not
lo re-appoint this or that fair
ly faceless, uncontroversial
state official, it does not
sound at all the same as when
he used to proclaim:
"I can tell you this: if
Dwight D. Eisenhower is elec
ted, Dean Achcson won't be
Secretary of State."
To complete the semi-parody
of 1952, Nixon is once
again using the anti-Communist
bugle. But instead of Al
ger Hiss, he must now talk
about the dire danger of al
lowing subversive persons to
speak on the campuses of
state universities. The respon
sibility for what happens on
the campuses actually belongs
to the highly conservative
Stale Board of Regents. In
addition, the constitution
guarantees the sinister sub
versives the right of utter
ance anywhere else. Yet Nix
on himself has confided lo
California reporters that this
is the "issue" which gets "the
best response."
T
M1E question remains, how-
ever, whether Nixon can
n wav In nsrnnp frnm hie
find a way to escape from hi:
undoubted difficulties in the
weeks that remain to him. As
yet, the state has not really
concentrated its attention on
the Gubernatorial campaign.
The campaign will only move
to the center of the stage
when the World Series is
over, in fact.
Nixon still has his good
sense of timing. He is just as
formidably hard-working and
just as much a man of many
devices as he ever was. When
the World Series ends, he may
find a device that will rev
olutionize the outlook. He
plainly needs to.
Algeria To Back
Red China in UN
Algiers, Algeria - IRU - Al
geria mixed right into the
cold war today with an an
nouncement that it will sup
port Red China's efforts to
become a member of the Unit
ed Nations.
Algerian Foreign Minister
Arar Kheinisti made the
pledge to Communist Chinese
officials Sinulav night at a
party celebrating the
1.1th an-
niversary of Red
China's
"People's Republic."
With Premier Abmed Ben
Bella standing hy. Kheinisti
said FViping's membership in
the United Nations is "neces
sary "
"Algeria will do her duly
by supporting Red China in
that aim," lie said.
Algeria itself is not yet a
UN member hut is expected
to be admitted shortly.
Kennedy Accused
Of Appeasement
Indianapolis, ine. ,l?P -Sen.
Harry Goidw .tier i.R
Afi addressing a:. Indiana
GOP fund-raising spectacular
by telephone, has accused
President K niuiy of ap
peasement in Cuba.
"President Kennedy has no
purpose in Cuba except 10
appease the
said Gotdw.ite
Commuiusls,"
hit was un
able lo attend S.it"tilay nigiit
because of injuries suffered
in a Mil
At the same t'.-ne Go!. (wa
ter praised Indiana Sen. H:n
er h. i apen.i rt tor otiSpiiXcn
statements about the current
at-'military build up in Cuba.
OREGON
Foreign News Notes: Chips Are Down
As Britain Resumes Market Discussion
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
Common Market
The chips will be down this
month when
Britain re
sumes negotia
tions in Brus
sels on condi
tions for her
entry into the
European
Common Mar
ket. British ef
forts are aim-
Ntwiom ed at getting
stronger support from the
three Benelux countries and
West Germany.
These moves have arous
ed suspicions in Paris that
Britain is trying to isolate
Hoover's
ecome
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington-iBPD-Dear Gen,
Eisenhower:
You should
be first in
line to buy J.
Edgar Hoov
ers new book
and be first to
read it, too, if
if only to pro
tect yourself
against anoth
er embarrass
ment in de-
V TO
aiiit-t kemtsai
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Vt llsun
fending the American way
against the Communist sys
tem. In one of your early presi
dential news conferences you
told us about an incident
when you were commanding
NATO and were having a
Letlors to the Editor must bear the
although under certain circumstances
fii
for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted lor oubltcation must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Nine Steps
To the Editor: Considering
the importance of the issue of
reapportionment, more people
snould be aware that Measure
No. 9 proposes a radical
change in our Constitution.
Our present Constitution
provides that representation is
distributed among the counties
aeccwtfuia to population. No
cnlntive coud COnstitu-
lionally represent as much as
four times the number of
voters as any other representa
tive, and the maximum now is
two and one-tenth to one.
Our present reapportion
ment adopted in 19U0 con
forms with both the State and
Federal constitutions and has
been rated first in the Nation
in terms of being the most
representative. In Oregon it is
almost impossible for a minor
ity to control Oregon's legis
lature. Measure No. !), which prob
ably violates the U. S. Con
stitution, would have thirty of
Oregon's 65 members of Ore
gon's House distributed ac
cording lo area, without re
gard lo population. District
lines would be frozen. A mi
nority of the voters could eas
ily control Oregon's Legis
lature!! Voter ratios could
vary by as much as 1000 to llf
The Housed Representatives
probably would increase in
membership each 10 years and
we might end up with 1001)
members of the House.
Oregon would no longer be
first in the nation, but would
drop down to about 10th or
12th place, behind boss ridden
Massachusetts and Southern
Democrat dominated Vir
ginia!! In 1!)52. witli the adoption
of our present
constitutional
t provision, Oregon took 10
1 giant strides forward in rc
1 apportionment, and ended up
lo. tiling the slates!! Ballot
Measure No. 9 would take
j Oregon 9 steps backwards!! Is
that the kind of progress the
1 citizens of Oregon are entitled
lo?
; Vernon Cook
i State Senator
Multnomah County
Gresham, Ore.
Ho King Makers i
To the Fdi'.or: In a recent
letter to editors circulated by
Senator C'oek he state: "Meas
ure No. 9 which probably vui-1
laics the US. Constitution I
would h:ive 30 of tlie ti," mem
bers of Oregon s House dis-
iniuitect accoramc to area,
w ithout regard to population.'1
I wonder whether attorney
Coek would now fuvor us
with ano'.her "legal" opinion
on the cons'itiition.ility of 'he
following "The Senate of the
Untied, States shall be com-..
posed of two Senator:: from
c.h h St ile, elected by t''o
people thereof, for six years;
..nd each Senator shall have
one vote. '
Does this portion of article t
i
1
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France in the European align -
mcnt.
The signs are that Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle might
consequently harden his terms
for British entry Into Europe.
Inside France
At home, the De Gaulle
governent is bracing for a
new eruption of strikes in na
tionalized industries. First
government offers of wage
boosts of only a little over
4 per cent have stirred up
anger among the labor un
ions. More trouble also is ex
pected from larmers in Brit
tany indignant over increased
railroad freight charges for
their produce.
. Meanwhile, the busy De
Gaulle is expected to put in
a personal appearance when
the French army stages its
biggest maneuvers s i n r e
World War II early this
New Book
on
dish of tea or something with
one of those Russian gener
als who also was a political
commisrar and very handy
with word, to boot.
Remember? This Russian
Joe gave you a big sales talk
on the Communist system and
challenged you to reply in
behalf of the American way.
You told us that you couldn't
do it or, anyway, that you
felt that your argument was
inadequate. That is not sur
prising because a Commie
political commisrar must be
thoroughly schooled in the
basic arguments of his trade,
as a West Point cadet com
mits to memory the dreary
passages of the IDR (Infan
try Drill Regulations).
Mighty few Americans
could stand up to a Kremlin
nme and address of the writer,
the use of a pen name or initial
XVII of the U.S. Constitution
which provides that the entire
Senate shall be distributed ac
cording lo area, without re
gard to population, meet the
test of constitutionality while
ballot proposition number 9,
which proposes to divide less
than half of one Oregon House
in a similar manner, fail be
cause it docs not go far
enough in this direction? Or
could it be that the U.S. Con
stitution is itself unconstitu
tional? The purpose of law is to
achieve justice and this can
only be hoped for when all
interests, viewpoints, and
problems ate given a hearing.
To require citizens of many
counties in Oregon to look lo
a delegate 100 miles or more
away, who lives in an entirely
different type of area with dif
ferent problems, to represent
them in Salem, is to deny to
those people an effective voice
in state government.
Our state legislature should
not be thought ot as a lynch
mob wherein issues are to be
fought out on the basis of rel
ative mass of numbers, but it
should be considered as a de
liberating body wherein all
interests and
viewpoints are
given consideration
There are among the opon
ents of Proposition No. 9 Ihose
who seek not only to place the
entire state under the control
of a few small areas but they
seek further to replace the di
rect primary election by party
conventions. This arrange
ment would make it an easy
matter for an aggressive mi
nority to seize control of
cither or both party conven
tions in the strategic popula
tion centers and hence dom
inate the state.
Let's take nine steps away
from these wnniH kn
: makers m-. fr. n, .i .
of machine politics and boss
ism. Let s adopt ballot propo
sition No. 9.
Karl Glidewell
1090 North First st.
Hermiston, Ore.
Pro Baseball
I To the Editor: The Medford
! Lions Club w ishes to thank
jyou and the members of vour
staff for the time and effort
j expended in bringing our
jsponsorshin of t lie professiut'
al basebaii names of Anc
and 27 before the public.
It is true that monetary re
, '.urns on these games were not
what we had hoped for and
i m.kih conservation anr.
other community benefits will j
be dependent upon other proj- 1
cts. However, the games S
played by the Eugene Emer
alds w ith the Salem Dodeers '
and the Tn-City Braves were
good and we hope that, with
your assistance, those people
of the Medford area who are
interested in this type of en
tertainment were able t.i
learn of and attend these
game?
Clyde Webb
President
' month
He will use the oc-
casion to boost his plans for
l French nuclear striking
force.
Cuba vi. Berlin
In Berlin there Is specula
tion that any serious Russian
attempt to end Western rights
in Berlin or to interfere with
access to it "will end the Cu
ban Problem." The theory is
that any aggressive action
against Berlin would draw
United States retaliation not
only to protect American
rights in Berlin but also
against Soviet influence in Cu
ba. Beefing Up
Look for Japan to beef up
her self-defense forces in an
effort to become less depend
ent on American military pro
tection. Observers in Tokyo
say the move is linked to So-
Suited to
commissar and refute, point ia"d 1 am still a mass of ten
by point, the Russian Joe's derness and soreness. If I had
arguments in behalf of Com-jbeen going five miles an hour
munism and in derogation of j faster, I am sure some bones
the United States. Oh, ourjwould have been broken, or
guy would know right : some internal organs severely
enough that ours was the best
system, but his argument
would not be organized.
Neither would our boy be
likely to have the skill in de
bate and logic to detect and
destroy the Russian argu
ments, based as they are on
a series of false and phony
premises.
Well, General, that's where
J. Edgar Hoover's book comes
in. It is written for Amer
icans just like you and me
and your neighbors and mine.
More than that, Hoover has
written a book ideally suited
to become the text for teach
ing American high school and
college students what Com
munism is about and where
and how and why it is infer
ior to the American way.
Important Attribute
That is the most important
attribute of Hoover's book.
"A Study Of Communism,"
that it can explain to young
America why they should be
willing to fight and to die
to keep Communism out. It
is more important that young
America understand all about
that' than that you or I un
derstand it, General. You and
I are too old to fight. But,
the way things are going with
the Commies swarming all
over Cuba and likely to be
collecting some mainland Lat
in American nations before
long, the young American of
the present may have some
j fighting and dying to do.
You would have licked that
Russian Joe, General, if you
had slugged him witli the
facts contained in Hoover's
book. Of course it wasn't
written then and you
couldn't have been expect
ed to know about it. But the
book is published now, by
Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
203 pages, $3.93. VT
Perhaps the Pentagon's
War College, West Point and
other institutions of learning
in support of national defense
should adopt "A Study of
Communism" as a text.
lucre will be some ecg
head nit-picking of Hoover's
book because he rnntnnri.
j hitl Communism is an inter -
nal as well as external men
ace to the United States. The
egghead lefties scoff at that
and tend to make fun of Hoo
ver. That sels them apart in
the United States, far apart.
UNDERGOES SURGERY
Santa Monica, Calif. -ilTt-
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was reported in "excellent I
condition" today following j
emergency surgery to remove
an intestinal obstruction. At- ,
tendants at St. John's hospi-
tal said the operation Sunday
was a complete success.
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viet threats that Japan would
become a prime target in a
nuclear war because of tha
presence of U. S. bases on
Japanese soil.
Strictly
Persons
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
FOREWARD AND
BACKWARD
I was only traveling at
about 10 miles an hour, when
the car ahead of me suddenly
stopped for a
f-Mf"" ""S light, and I
, j rammed u
from the rear.
' T n e children
i
sitting in the
hack seat of
' ! my car did
not suffer a
i b u m p
scratch. It i3
llama a week later,
injured. And this was tha
mildest possible crash - noth
ing like a head-on collision.
This shocking and shaking
experience brings home to ono
more forcibly than all tivi
words of warning in the world
how close we are to death or
permanent injury in our auto
mobiles. The accident occured
in a fraction of a second: I
was stunned and bruised be
fore I even knew what had
happened.
Wa ordinarily think of
fatal auto accidents as tak
ing place at a high rale of
speed, while passing or
turning on a highway. Ac
tually, however, most fatal
accidents take place at
speeds under 35 miles an
hour, on ordinary city
streets or country lanes,
when the vigilance is re
laxed and danger seems a
gross improbability.
The human body Is not
designed to withstand sud
den impact, even at a low
velocity. Traveling at present-day
auto speeds, we are
a perpetual invitation to
disaster. No wild animal in
primitive limes was so much
a threat to man's survival
as his own automobile to
day; this is a truth we find
it hard lo believe - until
thai moment of involve
ment. Beyond the banal facts of
my little crack-up, there is
a wider moral for the hu
man race that we do not
learn until it is too late,
that proverbs do not leach
us as much as pain does,
that warnings are abstract
symbols unless they reach
the nerve and bone and
muscle.
"The whole trouble with
life," Kierkegaard once said,
"is that it must be lived for
ward, but can only be under
stood backward." The futility
of wars can be seen only after
both sides are bleeding and
prostrate: the consequences o?
! carelessness, or selfishness, or
! cruelty, or greed, can ho
i KrasPccl ""'V af,cr tne
torical event.
We learn (he hard way -in
our public and social, as
well as ill our private, lives.
Even those of us who buy seat
belts, as I did, do not wear
them when we should; we usu
them as magical tokens, hop
ing that their mere prcsenca
will protect us from disaster.
The essence of disaster H
that it strikes when we least
expect it, when we are least
prepared. We are peering
hopefully into the future.
-when we should be learnin?
our lessons from the past.