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V MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 13S2 A S Try and Stop Me t i- -By BENNETT CERF- A GROUP OF Montreal nature lovers once invited the great Canadian humorist, Stephen Leacock, to accom pany them on a predawn bird-watching expedition. "Ladies," Mr. Leacock told them i candidly, "I freely admit that I am the kind nf . ' ' DOWNTOWN SHOPPING CENTER man who would have absolutely no interest in an oriole building a nest unless it built it in my hat in the check room at my club." if 11 fi How dry can it become in the Western stretches of TexuT Well, one old coot from those parts member of his local chamber of commerce, too admits, "We once went so lone without even a smidgen of rain, and water got so scarce that when one of the kids absolutely had to have a drink, I had to pull up the well and run it through the wringer." "Cyril," said a teacher one bright morning, "do you feel that there is one thing you can do better than anybody else in the world?" "There is," said Cyril firmly after the briefest hesita tion. "Read my own handwriting." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The other day this writer "had lunch with a couple of . fellow conservatives, and in the course of the meal the conversation came around to the subject of democracy both democracy as a political system and democracy as a way of lite. We batted it back and forth . for quite some time, discours- Ing wisely upon democracy's .merits and its pitfalls, and finally one of the crew was reminded of this rather cyn ical quotation: "Democracy can survive -only until the public discovers -that it can VOTE THINGS , FOR ITSELF OUT OF THE -PUBLIC TREASURY." WE AGREED that it was a good smart crack, and this question then arose: ... Who said it? None of us knew. We became so interested . that after lunch we hunted up a copy of Bartlett's indispen sable Familiar Quotations. We discovered that Bartlctt Js silent on the subject. -TN THE course of our re . A searches, however, we -learned quite a lot about what the great thinkers of the .world have thought and said -about democracy. There is Plato, for example. ;who lived and taught more than 2,000 years ago. In his The Republic, in which he de- . scribes the workings of an imaginary ideal state, he says: "Democracy is a charming .form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dis- .pensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. One can't help wondering if Plato had his tongue in his .cheek when he said that. CO - You see Our time wasn't wasted. The re-reading of Aristotle's statement made more than 20 centuries ago that "the addition of the middle class turns the scale and prevents either of the EXTREMES from becoming dominant" is alone worth all the time we spent trying to find out who said: "Democracy can survive only until the public discovers that it can vote things for it self FROM THE PUBLIC TREASURY." That is a good comment. I can't escape the feeling that if Plato and Aristotle could come back to this work in which Democracy is a big is sue and a big problem they would agree with it. IN CONCLUSION: 't Over the years, I have discovered that when I want to find out something that I want to know and can't find in the books al I have to do is to ask the readers of this newspaper about it. SOME BODY always knows. So, here goes. Who said that democracy can survive only until the public finds out that it can vote things for itself out of the public treasury? C3D aHEN there is Aristotle, will was a pupil of Plato, ant "who became the teacher of Alexander the Great, the char acter who conquered the known world and then, it is alleged, sighed disconsolately because there were no more worlds to conquer. Of democ racy, Aristotle said in his Politics: "If liberty and equality, as Is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when ALL PERSONS ALIKE share in the government to the utmost." He then went on to say: "The best political commun 'Hy is formed by citizens of the middle class. Those states are like to be best governed in which the middle class is large, and LARGER, if pos sible, . than both the other classes, or at any rate larger than either singly; for the ad- dition of the middle class turns the scale and prevents either of the extremes from becoming dominant." fill BEEFEATER BEEFEATER I the imported English Gin that doubles your martini pleasure 7- UmmiaUei. tince 1820 BEEFEATER GIN 94 WOOf 100 61 MUT8M SfUHS KQ8MN0 COSfWTIOS TO YORK 1, It. T. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT. Irsiri VC3 F. R. Brennan, C.I.A. 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