Family
Council
Editor'! Note: The Fimlly Coun.
CU consists of a Judge, a psychia
trist, Uiree clergymen, a newspaper
editor, a women's editor and two
writers. Each article Is a summary
of an actual case history. The
Council reports on problems that
nave oeen aeait Wltn ny r.spon.
ftible aiteicles and counselors.
(Copyrlfht 1861 General Features
Corp.)
Wilma D, - On account of
her, I can't tell my brother
anything.
Mamie G. - I don't see any
thing so confidential in her
talk.
e
Wilma D. - Because my sister-in-law
is such a blabber
mouth, I don't dare tell my
own brother what's new with
me and my family. He'll tell
Mamie, and she'll tell the
whole world.
She uses any little tid
bits about us she can collect,
as bait to get invited around.
That's how she holds her
audience. She hands out her
version of every littlf: family
Item she lays her hand on.
For instance, I told my broth
er I'm getting a new fur coat.
I planned to tell my friends,
one by one, as I saw fit. What
was my surprise to get a few
phone calls the very next
day from friends who wanted
to hear the details.
How's that for a quick
Jeak? You see now why I
must keep secrets from my
brother.
Mamie G. - What's all the
secrecy about? You'd think
Wilma is working for the
FBI the way everything she
says is supposed to be so
important.
I can keep a secret as well
as the next one, provided it's
labeled a secret. Otherwise I
feel free to use my own judg
ment on what to tell, when to
tell it, I'll whom to tell it.
But I don't see where I've
done Wilma any harm to
mention that she's getting a
sheared racoon. It was the
same when she joined a gym.
After all, 1000 other women
are signed up there, so I
couldn't imagine her trying
to hide the fact. But she
didn't talk to me for weeks
because I wrote the news in
a family letter to a cousin.
My husband feels as bad
about this as I do. Wilma has
rto case at all.
The Council - Here we're
back to the old joke on How
to Spread the News, - tele
phone, telegram, and tcll-a-Mamie.
As to what's tellable, all
depends on what about and
to whom. Obviously when it's
about Wilma and to the pub
lic at large, she deems it un
tenable except by herself.
But with more relaxed peo
ple, anything that's destined
to become public knowledge
eooner or later may be band
ied about sooner by anyone
who needs conversational fod
der. Some folk tell you it's Fri
day as though it's a State Sec- j
ret. Peering to the right and J
Jeft, with one hand over their ;
mouth, they whisper sweet
nothings which are really
nothings. Scclusiveness. sec
retiveness is a mannerism, a
way of life with them,
whether they arc FBI men or j
merely nontrusling, sc!f-im-1
portant souls who won't part
with a word without a price :
attached. !
This disagreement boils ;
down to whether Mamie is ;
circumspect, sensitive and dis- j
erect with her tidbits of con-1
versation, and whether Wil- j
ma is unduly touchy, sus-',
picious, and self-dramatizing j
about "routine" news. j
As in-laws their "feelers" j
may be askew. And who's ;
caught in the squeeze? Ma
mie's husband, of course. His ;
easy chatter with his wife :
turns him into a "grapevine"
as far as his sister is con
cerned. The happy compromise
may lie in Mamie's realiza
tion that Wilma needs items
about herself as attention
getters. When Mamie beats
her to the punch, what's left?
So it behooves Mamie to give
Wilma the pleasure of talking
about Wilma. Mamie can lim
it her conversational pearls
to talk about Mamie, hersc'f,
and less self-conscious
friends.
Go ahead and talk natural
ly, Wilma. to your brother
(even if you consider him a
fieve) and to Mamie. But you,
Mamie, must clam up "un
naturally" so as not to steal
Wilma's thunder. She needs
it more than you.
People Outnumbered
By Dogs on Airline
New York - m - Ozark
Air Lines reported that during
a recent 30-day period it ship
ped more dogs than people
from one of its normally busy
pawncer terminals.
More than 400 dogs of var
ious breeds were shipped
from Ml. Vernon. III. weigh
ing approximately 6,319
pounds.
HEALTH COSTS
Chicaco -il'IT- The Health
Insurance institute reports In
dividual costs for health pur
poses rose from $87 in 1956 1
to $116 last year.
SECTION B
Medford
PAGES 1 to I
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1963
News About Servicemen
COMPLETES SCHOOL
Dennis E. Henderson, ma
chinist's mate fireman ap
prentice, USN, has completed
the Navy machinist's mate
school at the U. S. Naval
Training center. Great Lakes,
III., and is visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hender
son, 1532 Terrace dr.
On Jan. 6 the sailor will re
port aboard the USS Monti
cello at San Diego.
PEN SALES 'BULLISH'
Fort Madison, la. - (DPI) -
Unit sales of fountain pens
and ballpoint pens during the
1962 holiday gift season are
expected to set an all-time
high mark for the writing in
strument indLlStrV Atari; ntin.
analysts at the Sheaffer Pen
company predict an increase
of 5 to 12 per cent over the
20 million Dens that mnviut
over retail counters in the
several weeks before Christ
mas last year.
BACHELORS LOOK AHEAD
New York - (ITD - Bache
lors head the list of cedar
chest purchasers, according to
statistics compiled by the
Lane company, large manufac
turers of the chests. Eighty
per cent of all cedar chests
are bought as gift items,
mostly by men for their fi
ances, the company said.
Congressman's Life Is Difficult Job, Durno Concludes
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington (Spccial)-"The
life of a congressman," con
cludes Rep. Edwin R. Durno,
. vi-st after two
ie.5 'ears ' expe
rience in this
role, "is a dif
ficult and de
manding one."
In a final
news letter
before leaving
office, the
Medford phy-
Smith sician s u m -mcd
up his observations about
the important task to which
a few hundred Americans de
vote themselves year-in and
year-out because this is a free
socieiy. Inasmuch as newspa
permen seldom take time to
report, along with the hard
news developments, the per
sonal routine of a congress
man, Congressman Durno's
fig
summation of it probably
rates as news to many citi
zens Here is what he wrote:
"He must live a dual life
in trying to satisfy 51 per
cent of his constituents', and,
at the same time, live with
his conscience and do the
things that are morally and
economically proper for his
district, his state, and his
country.
"The job is exasperating,
frustrating and yet most re
warding. An average day is
from 10 to 14 hours without
scanning the newspapers and
glancing at the many new
books and governmental re
ports that cross his desk.
(Editorial note - Dr. Durno
found time, however, to read
the news-papers from Oregon,
and some days he was frank
to say that what he read only
intensified his exasperation,
a not uncommon experience
for men in public life.)
"Dictation and Mtcr sign
ing, 100 - 200 daily; commit
tee work, 9:45 a.m. to 11:45
a.m. Congress assembles at
noon. The sessions n ny last
from two to six to eight hours.
Visitation by his constituents;
luncheons and dinners wind
up the day and he is usually
home by 10:30 to midnight.
I And then there are special
j projects, hearings he must al-
tend, 'phone calls, telegrams
to answer, and myriad lesser
I duties.
j "The Congress itself: wicldy
in committees where laws arc
actually hammered out; most
unwieldy on the floor of the
Mouse, where it is difficult
and nearly impossible to
write legislation. I often think
of what the unitiau H must
think when they see the
House of Representatives in
session for the first time.
Noisy, sparsely attended, poor
aramslk's for the gallery.
There is seeming confusion
most of the time, and indef-
I ference is evidenced by those
; members who are present."
I It is not surprising that
Durno would comment on this
aspect of life in the House,
for he was much more consci
entious than the average con
gressman in attending daily
legislative sessions and listen
ing to the debates, or what
passes for debate, in order to
inform himself of the pros
and cons of issues on which
he had to vote.
"It would seem that I am
writing an indictment," he
continued. "I am not. I re
peat, laws are made by com
mittees, by men behind the
scenes, and are fashioned by
seniority, friendship, equity
and necessity."
Influence Recognized
Therein, Durno offers a
clue to his reason for bowing
out of the House (he unsuc
cessfully sought the Senate
nomination last May instead
of seeking a second term in
the House). He recognized
that influence is greatest
among certain senior con
gressmen, that the House was
a good place for a younger
man to stake out a career
bin that an older freshman
congressman could have less
expectation of serving long
enough to gain the necessary
seniority. With this in mind,
he thought it better to gam
ble on a crack at the Senate,
where individual influence is
often greater.
"What a funny feeling onej
gels in the pit of his stomach
as he casts an 'aye' vote for I
an appropriation of $48 bil
hat it takes your ote and
lion. You suddenly realize;
only 218 others to commit 185
million Americans to pay the
bill. How easy it is to vote
for something that gives peo
ple something - education,
health, welfare, agriculture,
urban renewal. Increased sal
aries, medicare, pensions.
How difficult It is to vote
against those things even
though you know that as a
nation we cannot afford them
if we are to continue to be
the big benefactor of more
than 100 other nations of this
world. Generous, kind, com
passionate, America."
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