I SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1983 '' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
CairL'ScBDidbuirg Observes His
U5tb S
By LOWRY BOWMAN
' United Press International
Flat Rock. N.C. Four
stubby pencils Jut. from
small frozen orange juice can.
Books are everywhere
Magazines, pamphlets and
newspapers ranging in sub
ject matter from football to
international politics spill
over the coffee table, desks
sofa and chairs. Paintings
and photographs take up what
room is leu.
Perched on the edge of a
, grand piano in one corner is
a cardboard dox laucica
"rjork & beans." Inside it is
oile of manuscrips, and pen
ciled on its lid is the Inscrip
tion "Carl to look over if
time."
Artistic Boxer's Hands
. The old man with the pro
file of Sitting Bull and the
hands of an artistic boxer sat
In front of a window ana
listened intently to Christmas
carols from a high fidelity
record player.
"That thing turns this old
man's working room into a
cathedral," he said.
The man was Carl Sand
burg, and ne occasion was
'the joint observance of his
85th birthday and the publi
cation of his 23rd or 36th or
41st book probably not even
.Sandburg could tell for sure
:just how many there have
been. Two of them have won
the Pulitzer prize.
Will Be Big Event
A new volume of 77 poems
at the age of 85 would be a
big event In any man's life.
For Sandburg, the crag-faced
poet of the pairies, it is a
.mark only of things still need
ing to be done, and for a mo
ment even the title of the
Inew book slipped his mind.
.His wife had to remind him.
' It has been just half a cen
'.tury since the one-time sol
dier, dishwasher, barbarshop
porter and farmhand startled
the literary world with his
'."Chicago Poems." He was the
'son of a Swedish immigrant
who worked for $6 a week on
a railroad construction gang
in Illinois, and he almost be
came a general instead of a
poet. It still amuses him.
"I would have made a hell
of a general," he laughed.
What happened?
Picked for Academy
: "When the sixth Illinois
volunteers came home from
the Spanish-American war
they wanted one of us to go
to West Point. I was picked.
Well, I flunked the mathe
matics test. Made a 73, Since
then I've learned to count to
.10, and I know my multiplica
tion tables up to 12. I've got
no use for It."
It was four o'clock in the
afternoon. Sandburg had just
arisen for the day after a
night of writing In bed. Ills
breakfast was half a cigar
thoroughly inhaled. There
would be coffee at six.
Sitting quietly in his chair
with an Indian blanket be
hind his head he looked like
a man of 83. But when he
stood to pull a book from the
shelf, 30 years dropped away.
Twenty-three years ago
when he completed his monu
mental four-volume set of
"Abraham Lincoln: the War
Years," Sandburg resolved to
call it quits and "luxuriate as
a spectator in the world of
books."
Now at 85 he is planning
a commentary on Lincoln, a
volume of photographs re
flecting his deep faith in man.
perhaps another collection of
folk songs and work songs,
and "I hope someday to write
the history of my days as a
socialist organizer."
Sweat-Stained Words
His latest volume, "Ilonry
and - Salt," rings with the
sweat-stained words that first
brought him fame when he
Christened Chicago "hog
butcher for the world." lis 77
poems talk of birth, love,
death and work.
Chaput Sees Separate Republic of Quebec
"I have learned," Sand
burg said, "to write all the
letters of the alphabet with
my right hand. I haven't yet
IcHrncd how to do it with my
left."
He has never so much a:
clicked the shutter of a box
camera. But he is fascinated
now by the wordless poems
single picture can recite.
"T h o photographers are
going to have It over the
painters," he said. "The pho
tographers have the future.
They can seize a moment as
no painter tan,"
Had Picture With Him
As the white-haired old
poet talked, UPI photogra
pher Joe Molloway Jr. caught
the play of his words on film.
By chance, Holloway had
with him a news picture he
had snapped in a North Caro
lina cotton mill town.
The picture showed a Ne
gro woman looking from a
shanty doorway to a grassless
yard where her three chil
dren played.
Sandburg picked it up. He
held it to the waning light
from the window and studied
it for long minules.
The intensity on that
face," he said flnnlly. "This
picture to live with.
Autograph it for me."
Born A Johnson
Sandburg was born Onirics
August Johnson Jan. 6, 1878,
at Galesburg, III. His father
changed the family name be
cause there were so many
August Johnsons working for
the railroad that the pay
checks were always mixed
up.
Carl had lo go to work at
1,1 delivering milk to help
support the family. He took
any job he could find. After
the Spanish-American war
and his failure at West Point
he worked his way through
Lombard college at Gales
burg by sweeping out the
gymnasium and editing the
college newspaper.
CARL SANDBURG
Observes 85th Birthday
It was then he started writ
ing poetry.
"I wrote sonnets In classi
cal rhyme, but rhyme didn't
satisfy he," he said. "Rhyme
is a hindrance. When you get
a word at the end of a line
that says what you want it to
say, leave it there."
Conviction Not Changed
He hasn't changed that con
viction. His latest volume
says:
". , . Cod is no gentle
man for God
Puts on overalls and gets
Dirty running the uni
verse ..."
Of Robert Frost, three
years his senior and his only
challenger for the title of
America's poet laureate,
Sandburg said: "He is a Re
publican pool. I'm classified
as a Red."
After college, Sandburg
entered politics in Wisconsin.
He was an organizer for the
Social-Democratic party in
Milwaukee, and his political
beliefs have changed little if
at all. He worked as an edi
torial writer for the Chicago
Daily News, as a war corres
pondent, and as a columnist
for the Chicago Times syndi
cate. He was almost 40 before
his poems were noticed.
Roams The Country
Sandburg roamed the coun
try in his forties, talking with
the people, collecting folk
songs and ballads and assem
bling material for his prize-
winning biography of Lin
coln. When he was 58 he
wrote the work that summed
up his passionate faith in
mankind.
It was called "The People,
Yes." And it said: "The peo
ple will live on. The learning
and blundering people will
live on . , . this old anvil
laughs at many broken
hummers."
Now, 27 years later he
writes again:
"There will be people left
over
Enough inhabitants among
tlie Eskimos
Among jungle folk
Denizens of plains and
plateaus
Cities and towns synthetic
miasma missed
Enough for a census
Enough lo call it still
a world , , ."
Leave Skyscrapers
Sixteen years ago Sand
burg and his wife sister of
the noted photographer Ed
ward Strcichcn left the sky
scrapers and the prairies and
bought a 242-acre farm in the
North Carolina mountains.
They live there in an old
house with four white col
umns, 34 blooded Toggen
bcrg and Nubian goats, a don
key named Pico and an aging
dobcrman named Garth.
There is a frozen pond be
low Picos pasture. Ancient
while pines frame the porch
which looks out on Sugarloaf
mountain. It is quiet and re
mote, and there is no road
side sign or mail box to tell
who lives in the house. .
Sandburg obviously loves
Ihc place, but he has no in
tention of becoming a poetic
spokesman for the mountain
people as he was and is for
Ihc miner and the millhand.
Leave it for Others
"I will leave that for oth
ers, he said. Jesse Stuart
h a s done it wonderfully
well."
He is. however, displeased
that no poet has sung of Man
hattan or San Francisco as he
did of Chicago. There are
songs there to be sung, he
insists, "and when a poet
comes along who has some
thing to say, the world will
listen to him."
And as for Sandburg?
"I will be working on my
deathbed. I will die with a
yellow lead pencil in my
hand."
By DENIS O'BRIEN
United Press International
. Montreal-(UPIi-"In my opin
ion, the Sovereign State of
Quebec ought to be a republic
and democracy.
Thus wrote Marcel Chaput
in his book, Pourquoi Je Suis
Separatiste (Why I am t
Separatist), while still an em
ployee of the government of
Canada - of which Quebec is
the second largest province.
Chaput, 44, wants a sover
eign independent republic
spanning the St. Lawrence
river - the gateway to the
heart of the continent. Such
a republic, besides controlling
access to the St. Lawrence
seaway and Great Lakes sys
tem, would isolate the rest
of Canada from her four At
lantic provinces. '
At year's end, the stocky,
ruggedly handsome former
chemist for the Defense Re
search board announced for
mation of a new political
party, the Republican Party
of Quebec. His platform is to
reverse 200 years of English
domination of the French Ca
nadians by creating an inde
pendent Quebec.
Forsakes His Job
How serious is Chaput?
He was at least serious
enough to forsake his job and
a promising career with the
DRB Research agency. When
his duties conflicted with his
political activities - too much
time away from the office -he
quietly resigned.
Chaput is no violent revo
lutionary. Political activity,
he says, is the "ideal tool"
for the achievement of his
objectives.
Has he a following? Not -for
the moment at least - in
terms of numbers. Before
Chaput formed his political
party there were three sepa
rate "secessionist" movements
with a total membership of
less than 5,000.
Be Rallying Point
Now Chaput hopes his new
Republican party will be a
rallying point for all Separa
tist elements in the province.
However, he had little suc
cess in the recent provincial
general election. He ran as
an Independent - but avowed
Separatist - in the Montreal
district of Bourget and polled
fewer than 2,500 votes.
Why then is he taken seri
ously? There is no evidence of any
appreciable support for an
outright Separatist movement
in Quebec. But there is a great
deal of discontent and resent
ment among French Canadi
ans about their place in the
confederation. This stems
from historical, economic and
cultural factors.
When Canada became a na
tion in 1867 French Canadians
numbered nearly half of the
three million inhabitants of
the original four provinces.
French Canadians have al
ways insisted that the British
North America act was a
"compact between two races"
and not an a g r e e m e n t be
tween several provinces.
Today Canada is a nation
of 10 provinces with a popu
lation of 18.5 million scatter
ed over half a continent. The
population of Quebec stands
at 5,225,000. The French Ca
nadian dream of "La Revan
che du Berceau" (The Re
venge of the Cradle) has not
materialized. While the English-speaking
population has
been swollen with a steady
tide of immigrants (over two
million since the end of World
War II) French Canadians
have had lo rely on the nat
ural increase.
Most newcomers - if they
have to learn a new language
prefer to learn English.
For these reasons French Ca
nadians have always felt a
genuine fear that their eco
nomic and cultural life are
in constant danger.
It may have been a coinci
dence, but it certainly was
significant that on the very
day Chaput announced forma
tion of his new party in Mon
treal, Lester B. Pearson, lead-
On the Air
By ELEANOR WIESE
The myth of the Abomina
ble Snowman of Tibet will be
featured on "Wild Kingdom,"
a new scries beginning today
at 3:30 p.m. on KMED-TV.
Marlin Perkins, famed nat
uralist and director of the St.
Louis Zoo, and Jim Fowler,
expert on predatory birds,
will show films of wild ani
mals and primitive peoples
taken in the dense jungles, re
mote islands and polar wastes
of the world.
In today's episode, "Myths
and Superstitions" about ani
mals, Mr. Perkins will pre
sent films and data debunk
ing the story of the Abomina
ble Snowman as a result of
his trek into the Himalayan
Mountains with Sir Edmund
Hillary in 1961.
He will also explode some
long-held concepts about the
horn-playing snake-charmers
of India. A visit to a snake
charmer's school at Molar
Bund, India, reveals what ac
tually enables them to
"charm" snakes.
"Wild Kingdom" promises
lo be another show like "Dis
covery" and "Exploring"
which presents Interesting
facts in a fascinating manner.
HOMES COLLAPSE - This general view shows two do
j molished homes that collapsed due to landslides at limit
' wood, Calif. Both .'-omci had been evacuated. The earth
is estimated to he slipping at the r.ile of two feet an hour
and fears are expressed fur an additional 111 homes which
are loratcddownhlll on l)e street below. (LTD
NFL PLAYOFF BOWL, 11
a.m. Sunday KBES-TV. The
Detroit Lions meet the Pitts
burgh Steelers in the third
annual NFL Playoff Bowl
game at Miami.
NEW FACES OF CON
GRESS, 4 p.m. Sunday
KMED TV. Fifteen newly
elected Senators and Repre
sentatives of the 88th U.S.
Congress will be interviewed
regarding their political phi
losophy. Frank McGee will
be anchorman of the program.
UPDATE. 5 p.m. Sunday
KMED-TV. The effect of new
member countries on the
United Nations, the Ameri
can Labor Movement and how
it has changed over the years,
and Ihc emotional extremes
experienced by a squad of
cheerleaders during a basket
ball game are topics.
TWENTIETH CENTURY. 6
p.m. Sunday KRES-TV. "Zero
Hour in Greece'' will docu
ment the violent civil war in
Greece, resulting from the
first attempted take-over by
the Communists after World
War 11, and the brutal Ger
man occupation which preced
ed it.
MEET THE PRESS. 6 p.m.
Sunday KMED-TV. N Y. Re
publican Sen. Jacob K. Javits
will be Interviewed.
STARLIGHT CONCERT, 8
p m. Sunday K-llOY KM ra
dio. Music from Dehbes' "Cop
nelia" ballet: "La Traviata "
tor orchestra: "Harold in
Italy" by Heilioz; and Carl
Sandburg singing ballads.
PROJECTION '63. 10 p m.
Sunday KMED-TV. A round
up of the important news
events of '62 by NBC corre
spondents from London, Paris,
India, Berlin, Hong Kong,
concluding with each corre
spondent forecasting a major
news event for '63.
WINSTON CHURC HILL,
6:30 p.m. Monday KMED-TV.
The Italian government sur
renders and declares war on
Germany after the Allied invasion.
GARRY MOORE, 10 p.m.
Tuesday KBES-TV. Allan "My
Son, the Folksingcr" Sher
man, Eydie Grome and Doro
thy Loudon are guests.
CHET HUNTLEY REPORT
ING 10:30 p.m. Tuesday
KMED-TV. Huntley visits the
Malmstrom, Montana, Air
Force Base, which is the first
operational Minuteman Mis
sile installation in the United
States.
WAGON TRAIN, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday KBES-TV. Singer
actor Tommy Sands guest
stars as a youth whose arm
is amputated following a
wagon accident.
THE VIRGINIAN, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday KMED-TV. Broad
way musical comedy star
Tammy Grimes portrays a
dance hall singer who claims
her life is threatened when
she befriends the Virginian.
PERRY COMO, 0 p.m. Wed
nesday KMED-TV. Jane Pow
ell and Peter Ustinov join
Perry.
cr of the opposition Liberal
party in the House of Com
mons, called for a major re
view of the role of French
Canada in the life of the na
tion. "It is now clear to' all of
us . . . that French Canadians
are determined to become di
rectors of their economic and
cultural destiny in their own
changed and changing socie-
eral leader implied that Anglo-Saxon
Canada had not liv
ed up to the spirit of confed
eration and said the country
had yet to achieve a true na
tional unity based on a recog
nition of its two cultures -French
and English.
What sparked Pearson's
"Two Canadas" speech was
growing discontent that
French Canadians were not
proportionately represented in
the life of the nation, were
disbarred from top executive
posts in the civil service and
other federal government
agencies and were inadequate
ly represented in business and
industry.
Donald Gordon, president
of the government-owned Ca
nadian National Railway
(CNR) had said a few weeks
previously that he could not
find qualified French Canadi
ans for top posts in the rail
way company. This led to
widespread charges of dis
crimination in the French Ca
nadian press and a probe into
government promotion and
employment practices.
The facts revealed that
none of the CNR's 13 vice
presidents was a French Cana
dian. Only 13 per cent of its
top executives were represen
tatives of Canada's "other na
tion." A similar pattern was
found in all ranks of the civil
service and the picture was
far worse in business and in
dustry - even in Quebec
where French Canadians form
00 per cent of the population.
Burned in Effigy
Gordon was burned in ef
figy in several Quebec com
munities for saying he could
"not find" enough qualified
French Canadians for top
jobs. One demonstration in
Montreal nearly turned into
a riot.
A final indication of French
Canada's disenchantment and
disillusion was displayed in
last June's general election.
Quebec, which holds 75 seals
in the 265-seat House of Com
mons, has generally voted for
the Liberal parly, but seldom
has either major party - Con
servative or Liberal - been
able to form a government
without solid Quebec support.
In 1958, the province went
massively for Conservative
Prime Minister John Diefen
bakcr. But last June, in what
was generally interpreted as
a protest vote, Quebec sent 26
members of the radical, far
right Social Credit party to the
House of Commons. The party
didn't stand even an outside
chance of forming the gov
ernment. Both major parlies got the
message and if Pearson's
"Fair Deal for Quebec" speed.
vas ideologically inspired, it
also made sense politically.
The British North America
act (1867) guaranteed to
French Canadians preserva
tion of Ihcir language, civil
law, religion (Roman Catholic)
and customs. Confederation
was to be a "partnership."
Chaput and his followers
want to break up the "marri
age" but there is little evi
dence that the movement has
any serious appeal to the ma
jority. It seems rather the
extreme expression of gen
uine discontment.
The real leader of the new
Quebec is Premier Jean Le
sage. Lcsage, a 50-year-old
Montreal lawyer and former
Federal cabinet minister un
der French Canadian Prime
Minister Louis St. Laurent,
came to power in June, 1960,
with a pledge to revitalize
tlie economy, rid Quebec of
an inward-looking and corrup
tion ridden administration
and bring the province into
the full stream of national
life.
In mid-November this year
he sought and won a fresh
mandate and authority to ex
propriate the province's pow
er resources, in order to
achieve the "economic libera
tion" of Quebec. So armed,
he plans to take over 11-pri-valely-owned
power compa
nies at an estimated cost of
$800 million. He has launched
a program of educational re
form - Quebec's system leans
to the classics and humanities
- in order to give the people
the scientific skills and tech
nical know-how to control
their own economy.
Once a predominantly agri
cultural province, manufac
ing now accounts for two
thirds of Quebec's economy.
Don Denman Opens
Law Office Here
. Donald K. Denman recent
ly returned to Medford to
begin law practice.
Denman, son of Mrs. Ken
neth G. Denman and the late
Mr. Denman, was to be asso
ciated with his father in prac
ticing law in Medford, but
upon Mr. Dcnman's death in
September, assumed his own
law practice.
His law office is located
in room 10, in the Brffphy
building, Medford.
Denman is a graduate of
Medford High school, Oregon
State and Willamette univer
sity college Of law. He served
three years in the United
States Air Force as a first
lieutenant in the Strategic Air
Command as a navigator.
Denman is married to the
former Sandra Kerr Daley of
Bath, Maine, who is teaching
in the home economics depart
ment of McLoughlin Junior
High school.
The province has an abundant
source of hydro-electric pow
er. Its pulp and paper, refin
ing and smelting industries
are booming. And it is rich,
in iron ore and other min
erals. Say Unrealistic
Quebec's real leaders dis
miss Chaput and his move
ment as unrealistic. But they
are determined to preserve
their heritage and no longer
at the expense of economic
subservience.
French Canadians do not
expect every citizen of th8
dominion to be fluently bilin
gual. But they resent the fact
that French should be a han
dicap for high office - some
times in their own province.
Their civilization has survived
200 years of English domina
tion but they are no longer
content with mere survival.
They want partnership which
is seen as a two-way process.
Lesage, the symbol of tlia
new Quebec, speaks both lan
guages fluently. Chaput, al
though fluently bilingual, re
fuses to speak English - eveit
to reporters. Therein lies the
difference in their viws ot
whither goest Quebec.
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TWILIGHT ZONE. 9 p.m.
Thursday KBES-TV. "The
Thirty Fathom Grave." While
cruising off Guadalcanal a
U.S. Navy destroyer picks up
strange unaccountable sounds
on its sonar system.
CHALLENGE GOLF, 2:30
p.m. Saturday KBES-TV. Arn
old Palmer and Gary Player
meet two of golf's most prom
ising young players. Jack
Nicklaus and Phil Rodgrrs,
at the Los Angeles Country
Club in the premiere match
of ABC's new golf scries.
DAVID BRINKLEY'S
JOURNAL. R p.m. Saturday
KMED-TV. The South Ameri
can country ot Paraguay and
the art of beginning a speech
arc featured.
MOVIE. 9 p.m. Saturday!
KMED-TV. Ernest Heming
way's "The Sun Also Rises."
Tyrone Power. Ava Gardner.
Mel Ferrer. Errol Klynn and
Eddie Albert star in a tragic
love story of the "lost genera
tion'' of Americans in Europe
alter World War I.
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DOG
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