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Medfd and Jackson County
History (rom the tiles of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1953 (Wednesday)
Students from the senior
class nf Mcdford High school
were all set today to run Mcd
ford's city government lor a
day, according to Mayor Dia
mond Plynn's office.
A Portland couple lost $495
in cash to burglars early this
morning while they slept in
a local motel.
20 YEAHS AGO
Jan. 30, 1943 (Monday)
Jack Matlack, Mcdford,
scheduled to leave for Port
land lo become manager of
Broadway theater there.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column:: "The
legislature is still sawing
wood and saying a lot."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1933 (Wednesday)
Mcdford business man
anonymously offers to provide
clolhing Tor beginning first
grade students who lack ade
quate clolhing.
Total of 256 inches nf snow
fell at Crater Lake National
park during January, break
ing all-time record for that
month.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1923 (Thursday)
"Yeggs" blast open safe at
Pacific Fruit company and
escape with $10 in cash.
Total of 37 local grammar
school graduates enter Mcd
ford high school.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1913 (Saturday)
fingiic valley residents urg
ed "to keep calm, as it really
makes no difference whether
or not the groundhog saw his
shadow."
Local music lovers seek to
arrange concert here by Lil
lian Noidica for Feb. 14.
Stupid and Discriminatory
The Washington legislature, now meeting at
Olympia, has before it a bill which would amend
the 1!)0!) "blue laws" of the state those which
regulate and limit commercial activity on Sunday.
Under the bill, the following items could not
be sold on a Sunday: Liquor, household furnish
ings, building supplies, appliances, jewelry, cloth
ing, motor vehicles, clothing accessories, toys
(except novelties and souvenirs).
Sale of groceries would also be banned ex
cept in small, neighborhood stores. Sporting
goods would be banned except at recreational
facilities.
DKAL properly could be sold on Sunday, how
ever, and so could goods for charitable or
burial purposes, drocers. while unable to sell
food, would be able to sell agricultural items, j
This proposed measure is as are all "blue j
laws" a monstrosity. It is discriminatory, il
logical, and just plain capricious.
Originally blue laws were enacted almost en
tirely as protection-of-religion laws. However, in
more recent years, they have become, more and
more, regulators of competition under the guise
of social legislation, ostensibly (but not actually)
protecting workers from exploitation.
IT IS under the latter guise of social legislation
that most Sunday blue laws have been upheld
in the courts in recent years. In our way of think-
j ing, this is no better a pretext than the protection-
of-religion argument.
The latter forces a religious practice on those
not committed to it, thus violating their freedom
of religion. The former purpose can be, and is,
better served by wage and hour legislation, guar
anteeing everyone a period of rest during the
week, not necessarily on any special day.
Thus, the only real reason left for blue laws
I is for the regulation of competition. And here one
really enters a wondrous jungle.
WHY, for instance, should a resident of Vir
ginia be able to buy a six-pack of beer on
Sunday, but not be able to buy a quart of milk?
If this isn't the rankest stupidity, we'd like to
know why.
Why does the Washington proposal permit
real property sales, but ban those of sporting
goods except at recreational facilities? If this
isn't the rankest illogic, we'd like to know why.
Whv do some Sunday blue laws make one
who celebrates the Sabbath on Saturday (as do
Jews, Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh-day
Baptists) have two non-work days, rather than
one, against his own wishes? If that isn't the
rankest discrimination, we'd like to know why.
CUNDAY business grew up over the years in
response to a genuine demand. If there were
no demand for Sunday sales, you can bet stores
would be closed the very next Sunday.
Thus, blue laws discriminate not only as be
tween businesses, and against individuals, but
also against the person who has no religious
scrunles against buying something on Sunday.
The report of the General Assembly's Special
Committee on Church and State to the 174th Gen
eral Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church
in the U. S. A., had this to say:
"The church itself hears sole and vital responsibility
for securing from its members a voluntary observance of
the Lord's Day. The church should not seek, or even
appear to seek, the coercive power of the state in order
lo facilitate Christians' observance nf the Lord's Day."
We couldn't agree more. The Washington
legislature should resoundingly reject the asinine
proposal before it. Furthermore, we think the
Oreiron leuislature would be well advised to.
study this stale's blue laws with an eye toward
their elimination. F..A.
"You Think They Might Really Pull An
Inspection?"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
lei HHi.'t. The Wh)iinE(on Post
IS IT A CRAZY BUDGET?
It is not going to be easy
to prove the case for the new
budget which superimposes
a planned def
icit of nearly
S3 billion on
top of an in
voluntary def
icit of some
S7 or $8 bil
lion. It is
easier to ar
gue the casc
which is nov-
Lipiimauii el and highly
debatable - when it is done
with the modesty and learn
ing of the economic message
than when it is done with the
dogmatic assertiveness of the
tax message. For nothing can
be so certain as the lax mes
sage says it is, and no tax bill
can be so unqualifiedly won
derful. The basic question which
will have to be debated for
some months to come is
whether the budget for fis
cal 1964 is likely to do what
it is designed to do. Will it,
that is to say, cause business
to expand, thereby reducing
unemployment and using to
something nearer full capac
ity tlte industrial plant?
THE principle of the
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it super ior;
icvcn or ciqht it excellent; tiv or
kix it good.
Lobbying for Waste
11164
budget is a new one. Why
should there be a need of a
new budget principle? Be
cause the country is confront
ed with an economic problem
which first made its appear
ance toward the pnd of 1957.
The problem arises from the
fact that there is a condition
of chronic economic slug
gishness: the average rate of
unemployment has moved up
to a new level - from 4 per
cent fur the years from 1947
1957 to 6 per cent ever since.
The American economy has
been sluggish because total
demand has been sluggish
and capital investment con
sequently inadequate. This
sluggishness is a heavy bur
den on the nation. We are not
producing each year about
$:)( billion of wealth that we
have the labor and resources
to produce.
As a result of this non-production,
tax revenues have
fallen and the chronic slug
gishness has produced chron
ic budget deficits.
it is not easy to remember
how to explain why it is
round.
The new theory is that the
total demand for goods and
services should be approxi
mately large enough to pay
for approximately all the la
bor, plant and capital re
sources are capable of pro
ducing efficiently.
l1HOSE of us who accept this
fundimental theory agree
that the chronic sluggishness
since 1957 has been due to
insufficient total demand. We
agree, therefore, that demand
should be increased, and
while this could be done by
massive government spend
ing, it is easier and quicker
and has less of what the doc
tors call "side effects" to do
this by reducing taxes. Ex
perience has shown that con
sumers spend 93 per cent of
their disposable income,
which means the total de
mand will rise quickly after
a tax reduction.
There are not many who
now oppose a reduction of
taxes. But there are many
who believe that the princi
ple on which the administra
tion is acting is crazy and im
moral. They are saying that,
while taxes should be re
duced, the budget should be
balanced at the same time by
reduction of government ex
penditures. Have they, one wonders,
looked at the figures, and if
they have, can they really
mean what they are saying?
The deficit in the new ad
ministrative budget (1964)
is estimated at St 1.9 billion
after tax deduction and tax
reform. This is over 10 per
cent of the total administra
tive budget which is esti
mated at $98.8 billion. Where
do they think they can find
the nearly $12 billion to cut?
Presumably they will not
wish to cut national defense,
which takes S55 billion. Nor
will they cut space research,
which takes $4.2 billion.
Nor the veterans, which takes
$5.5 billion. Nor interest on
the debt, which takes $10
billion. Nor, if the arc polit
ically candid, will they cut
very seriously the $5.7 bil
lion taken by agriculture.
1. is a minaret the name of
a dance or a lofty tower at
tached to a musqttc?
'J The efforts of the March
ol Dimes are now directed tu
w liar.'
3 I the cuntriivcrMal Sk-
boll missile a ground In air.
air lo air or air to ground
t ,i hi?
4. Sislt r KliAtlii III Ki iiiiv
l- most noted tin- her method
trtaia.g what"
o Ihd the (anions Chicago
tin ocelli btloic ui atlcl Ulc
War Between lln Stale.!.'
ti 'I lie filt .-talc ii II. i'
I nit'li tu grant Noin.in m,M
I age is nicknamed Hit Equal.
1 1 Stale, name It I
7. I.-, gladioli ur gl.iilmluM s
the plural nf gladioli!.'
II Dues milk ur h 1 I,i i
cheese contain the most cal
ClUll! '
!l I poll graduation limn 1
law M'hool. a person become.-,
eligible lii practice law: ti uc i
in t.dsc'1 j
I" Name ihe new governor
ol .Michigan.
Answers: 1. Lolly lower, 2.
Polio, rheumatoid arthritis.
and birth delects. 3. Air to. It isn't a ll
irotind. 4. Polio. 5. Alter. 6. If tlcl't l
"yuiriinq. . Doitt. o. Lnraaar
fheei.e. 9.
P ninf y.
Because the federal government is the largest
single landowner in the stale of Oregon, admini-
, . ... .. . i. ... t. 1 1' i' ii. i ... t r ii..
siering more man nan oi ute uitat acreage vi iiii'!(l,.r Kisenlmw
slate, it has a t al ler special tib ication to the si.-tcd und
State ill the form of Hell-tax payments, develop- l'i"1""1 l'c '''amed on either j the wild spending in Washing.
."iii.! oi ciincr rrcsincni
'IMIE problems of economic1 '
A si 111' L'lvllllf'i. lllin:im THAT leaves s:'n hill,,,,,
cr and has per- everything else. Practieal-
Kemieriy. It ' i everyone who talks nbout
I 1 i I : i
Miuiii, lo.iii-oiiinini.u, .tun .-o on. i There is something wrong
We haC long felt that it has Hot fllllv lived for which we have no gener
ally accepted remedy. As
we cannot afford to non-produce
$;ii) billion annually
while we are bearing the
great burden of military de
fense and trying to take care
of our expanding population
we inuM make a bold at
tempt to overcome the slug
gishness We must take mea
sures to produce the lost Ml)
billion
up to tins ohligation in all areas.
Hut one argument we've never been able to
get excited about is that Oregon isn't getting its
"fair share" of military installations and defense
manufacturing industries.
IH DO NOT customarily agree with the Wall
Street Journal editorials that our business
manager occasionally drops on our desk, but we
most certainly agree with one.
It was entitled "Lobbying for Waste," and
described the efforts of a new Pennsylvania com-i
niittee organized "to lobby for the state's 'fair
share' of Federal defense spending," and oppose
any cutbacks in Army, Air Force or Navy facilit
ies in the state. The Journal says: 1
ton is talking about those $:!()
billion. Does anyone think
those Su billion can be cut
in half'.' The truth is that
those who mean seriously to
cut government expenditures
to an amount equal to the def
icit must cut defense or give
up the hope of balancing the
budget and cutting taxes.
The fact of the matter is
however,
More Trouble Foreseen in Southeast
Asia; Indonesia Resisting Malaysia
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
If the signs mean anything,
we can look for more trouble
in Southeast Asia between
now and Aug.
31.
On or be
fore that date
t h c Federa
tion of Malay
sia is schedul
ed to come in
to being as an
anti Commu
nist member
Newborn , ,. .,. ,
of the British
Commonwealth
It is to include Malaya, al
ready independent; Singapore,
self-governing except for Brit
ish control of its defense and
foreign affairs, and the Brit
ish dependencies of North
Borneo, Brunei and Sarawak
across the South China Sea
on the island of Borneo.
It is opposed by Indonesia
which has described Malayan
leaders as "accomplices of
nco-colonialist neo - imperial
ists pursuing a policy hostile
to Indonesia."
Having relieved themselves
of this linguistic mouthful,
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The big news today?
It's still the weather.
And howl
DISPATCHES report that a
heavy snow is swinging
through New York state,
leaving up to 70 inches in its
tracks. Plows are having a
problem disposing of it. In
places they have thrown up
12-foot ridges along the road
sides. In Watertown, nearly all
vehicles arc flying red flags
at the top of radio aerials so
they can be spotted over
snowbanks at the intersec
tions. At least 260 persons are
dead in weather related mis
haps since the record-breaking
cold and snow, the worst
in the century in some re
spects, first struck 10 days
ago.
w
HAT about overseas?
the Indonesians then went on
lo say they were adopting a
policy of "confrontation" to
ward the Federation of Mal
aysia. Last week, in conversations
with UPI President Minis
Thomason, leaders in Singa
pore and Malaya expressed
concern over the Indonesian
position.
In Kuala Lumpur, Malayan
Premier Tengku Abdul Rah
man told the Indonesians to
"keep your hands off Malay
sia." "Confrontation" is a word
the Indonesians used in forc
ing the Dutch out of Dutch
New Guinea.
It combined political and
economic pressures with mili
tary threats backed by power
ful armed forces built primar
ily with Communist-bloc aid.
Now, with Dutch New Gui
nea still undigested, the-same
tactics arc to be directed
against the federation, with
North Borneo, Sarawak and
Brunei the targets.
Since southern Borneo al
ready is Indonesia, the objec
tive would be lo bring the
whole of the island under In
donesian control,
Borneo is the world's third
largest island and the popu
lation of Indonesia makes it
the fifth largest nation, be
hind the United States. It
will soon hit 100 million peo
ple. Indonesia also is among
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci Field Enterprises. Inc.
Blizzards lashed parts of
five European countries Sun
day. Austria, West Germany,
Poland, France and Italy
were hit. The normally warm
and sunny Mediterranean
area was raw and chilly. In
East Germany, hundreds of
roads were blocked by snow
after a 20-hour storm.
Raging snowstorms have
brought death and misery lo
Japan, leaving 58 dead. Most
of the deaths occurred when
roofs collapsed under the
weight of snow that has piled I present and the future? By
SCIENCE AND MAN
Science deals with the com
monplace, not with the extra
ordinary. It questions the ob
vious more
than it inves
l i g a t c s the
strange and
the exotic.
This is a les
son the lay
man has not
vet learned In
J apply to his
nurn lifo hie
Harris his own lime,
his own society. The jreatest
advances in science have been
made by watching a bean
grow, an apple fail, a star
shine. From Galileo and New
ton through Mendel and Pas
teur and Einstein, the revolu
tionary discoveries have all
been made by examining the
simple and the immediate.
How exactly did Einstein
come to his theories of rela
tivity, which have utterly
transformed the world of the
up to 10 and 12 feet.
QUESTIONS:
How come?
What's causing it all?
yELL, two weathermen -"
one an amateur and the
other a pro - took a whirl
at explaining it all. One
blamed the recent high-altitude
nuclear blasts. The other
said the trouble came from
below - from the world's 600
active volcanoes.
TN DENVER, Dr. Irving P.
Krick. the professional -head
of Irving P. Krick As
sociates, a commercial fore
casting service - says:
"Something such as the nu
clear explosions has changed
both the course and the in
tensity of the jet stream. The
jet stream is the high-speed
air current which moves west
to cast around the globe at
altitudes between 30.000 and
50.001) feet.
"The radiation belt around
the earth has been intensified
by nuclear blasts, and thus
appears to have speeded up
and changed the course of
the jet stream. Now, instead
of moving across the north
ern portion of the globe near
the poles, there is a wave mo
tion in the strcmn. This wave
motion has caused the cold
penetration into the lower
latitude:,."
these facilities or not. the
i-imsv ! aina needs them .
l or wars now tlu rcnt.ic.oit has been facing increasing
pressure t rom sl.iic and local politicians almost any tune
"Whether the nation net
mo seems lo It i I lh.it Pi
t nai is what (he new hud- I not be a balanced borlL-. t
get is designed to do. Actual- j The withdrawal f r o m t h c
lv. it is , new experiment for I economy of that much de-
uie ciiucu Males to nave a inand for goods
iM.onuM . niKigctiiry cieiicit. i would be a heavy blow
nut it is not a new experi
ment in the rest of the modem
world, where all of the ad
Minced nations, if they nsod
our systrnt of accounting,
would he showing planned
dclicils
that, if bv some r-liA utiw-n r.. ... r
kind of major amputation ' 5 sional P
.oi., urn i in e.peii(tuures by i in
our uiiiioit, tne resti won ,
it wa
si lap
s decided In
,in obsolete
I'olllus have I'd I
out ot sh.ipe . . I
am hod
-lint down an tinnceilcd facility or
rap Ml too olten. tinloi tunalely,
lilnwid to Iw.sl oui dctellse plans
at kind ot di telisc I t aliv Isll t fair to
We agree in spades. To which w would also
add the fact that tlefeii.-e-ba.-etl indu.-try can add
wealth to an aiea in a hurry-hut it can also
cause a major economic tlisa.-ler w hen it is ended.
;liy bar-is for a sound economy,
in.-'allations are needed in Oretzon.
False. 10. George j
OK. ( Mheru i-e, w e're jll.-t
as
.an
whel
they're some-
e else,
-i:...
'IMIK dilliciilty in adapting
I the new budget principle
I to the American situation is
tl'.al thcie are so many scr
loos and respectable and suc
cessful people who think It
is ci a.'y, w ho think it is re
dleulous and who think ll is
not tar from bring a sv indie.
They ate outraged at the
idea of the government going
further into debt in order to
I make the eountt v richer.
This is not the first time
that a tine theory looked ah
isiiid T!'c earth, lor example.
I seems flat and is round, and
at
business, and it would cause
such a loss of revenue that
the budget at the end would
be more unbalanced than
ever. In all likelihood, we
would have a serious reces
sion. There is no getting away
from this There is only one
way to balance the budget
and that is first to balance
the economy
SEEK SAME TREATMENT
Washington '. "! Sen V r
nest Gruciiing tD AIaskai pro
posed Tuesday that oil and
coal producers be allowed the
same long term utility con
tracts with the government ;
that natural gas producers
get. Gruening. supported by
II other senators, said 'all
three fuels should tie treated
alike."
Richmond. Virginia.
Amateur Weatherman Louis
D. Rubin theorizes that ash
spewed up by volcanoes
Climbs llii.l, ifltn II, -
and services j .sphere and continent - sized
clouds of it circle the earth,
absorbing the radiation - and
thus cooling (he air beneath.
Now you have both sides.
You can take your choice.
questioning a word that every
body "understands." While
drudging away in a patent
office in Switzerland, and
working on his mathematical
equations, he asked himself
what was meant by "simul
taneous." O f course, everybody
knows what "simultaneous"
means-happening at the
same time. But what ex
actly is "ihe same time"?
No one human being among
the millions who had exist
ed until then ever doubted
that he knew what "same
lime" meant. A child of 5
could have told us. And yet,
by questioning this simple,
obvious idea. Einstein
cracked open ihe whole uni
verse like a nutshell.
Each scientific genius at
the crucial point of his
career, went back to first
principles. Each asked him
self a question that any
idiot could answer-and each
found that the answer was
not true, thai the obvious
was not so obvious after all,
thai the infinitely simple
has locked within it the se
cret of the whole complex
cosmos, A leaf, a stone, a
star.
In our personal lives, we
too rarely confront ourselves
in the naked simplicity of our
essential being. We almost
never ask Ihe qucstiuns which
have "obvious" answers: only
a child asks such questions
and we quickly shame him or
shush htm out of repealing
lliem.
Science lias made such
enormous strides because it is
not ashamed or afraid lo ask
such unsophisticated ques
tions: Why doesn't an apple
fall up, why doesn't a bean-
Ihe world's most heavily arm
cd nations.
It has late types of Rus
sian jet fighters and bombers
Its navy is equipped with a
missile cruiser and it has a
score of submarines.
President Sukarno has
shown himself no great
shakes as an administrator.
But he knows from experi
ence how to fight a guerilla
war.
His actions indicate two
things: He aims to take In
dian Prime Minister Nchru'J
place as leader of Asia's non
aligned nations, and tlte east
ern half of New Guinea now"
controlled by Australia welt
could be his next target aft
er North Borneo. -
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edit all letters with a view to clardication and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication 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.
Repetition
To the Editor: When these
advertising geniuses went to
school they, no doubt, had dif
ficulty learning their lessons,
and had to repeat a rule or
definition many times for it
to sink into their craniums.
That is why they use the tac
tic of repetition to cram Ihe
name of the product they are
trying to sell into the be
numbed mind of the hapless
listener. In the course of a
five minute newscast, one ad
vertiser mentioned the name
of his product 17 times. 1
would not buy the darn thing
at half price.
David Frisch,
P. O. Box 292,
White City, Ore.
How He Weeps
To the Editor: Several writ
ers have expressed grief be
cause of the invasion of
states' rights" by the fed
eral government.
I grieve too, but not for the
same thing. Not for the chil
dren for whom a fiendish gang
in Washington is planning to
build schoolhuuses. Nor for
the elderly on social security
who will be enslaved and de
graded by being allowed to
pay their doctor bills from
their own contributions. Nor
for the Negroes who will be
threatened by the granting of
citizenship. Nor for the inter
state travellers on roads built
through federal government
assistance. Nor for the people
who fish in a lake, formed by
a government dam, that they
can call their own.
No, I weep, oh, how I weep,
for the men who have lost the
dream, the mechanical men.
Sinclair Lewis described
the life of these lost souls in
one of his books:
"The goal of life in Gopher
Prairie is contentment. . .the
contentment of the quiet dead,
who are scornful of the living
for their restless walking. It
is negation canonized as the
one positive virtue. It is the
prohibition of happiness. It is
slavery self-sought and sclf
defended. It is dullness made
God."
Frank Cruni,
White City, Ore.
Hospital Needs
To the Editor: To achieve
better care of patients, the
state mental hospital needs
to be integrated into the com
munity. This means keeping
the hospital and its staff in
closer touch with all of the
community's public and priv
ate agencies, ft means an end
to the hospital's isolation from
the community; in isolation,
the backward custodial sys
tem may thrive, whereas in
the mainstream of commun
ity activity, a hospital's short
comings of service may conic
to attention.
The population of O S II. is
approximately 2.700 patients
who live on 53 wards. About
1.000 people are employed
and, with the help of the pa
tients, keep the hospital func
tioning on a a 24 hour basis.
Six wards receive all of the
patients into the hospital.
Many of the patients are treat
ed and released from these
wards, although some require
specialized or longer treat
ment, and are therefore trans
ferred to other wards.
Within the hospital general
ly, the personnel work as
teams. By combining the ef
forts and skills of people ffom
different professional groups,
more of the patient's problem
areas can be understood and
and explored. Because pa
tients help each other, they
are a very important part of
this team.
In the past few years, many
of our ideas about the mental
patient have changed. We
have changed our ideas about
the kind of persons he is, and
we have changed our ideas
about how we should treat
hint.
One of the most important
factors in the perpetuation of
mental illness in the patient
is rejection. As a consequence
the person who must come lo
the hospital often feels that
the community is merely try
ing to gel rid of him. Also,
many people who have severa
emotional problems are afraid
to ask for help for fear ot
being rejected because of this
stigma.
Hospitalization is .often seen
this way; the patient feels ho
is not wanted in the commun
ity, and believes that he is
being punished for misbe
havior. Such -a feeling does
not help in the hospital aim
of returning the patient to
normal life.
It is the patient whose
friends and family arc genu
inely interested in him who
has the best chance of get
ting well. Similarly, a com
munity which is interested in
its hospital, and the patient
in it, will help the hospital
to serve the community more
effectively.'
(Name wilhcld)
Saucermen
To the Editor: Docs not
common knowledge tell the
ordinary layman that any so
called "saucermen from outer
space" arc not likely to con
verse with an earth man that
has no special academic train
ing or learning in the prin
ciples of technology?
We are only assuming this
to relate to all the fabulous
accounts since the "White
Sands Incident" in New Mexi
co. For shortly after the con
troversial "White Sands In
cident," more and more
stories began to be told the
press from all points of the
compass. Especially the first
year or two, sighting of many
space-ships made the head
lines over the Southwest and
Northwest.
It seems after the fad rath
er wore off, new stones be
gan to pop up about having
interviews with the inter
planetary visitors. We read a
book, "Behind The Flying
Saucers," by Frank Scully,
1950, a 230 page controver
sial book and we have been
pondering over the provoca
tive questions and answers
ever since.
Bert Kissinger
322 South Riverside
Mcdford
S, pod turn into a carrot, what
O Ml 11 (or what has hap- ,e is jf vuu'rc traveling
net ed "
in a moon-beam'
pened
What's
next''
gmiig lo happen
THE weather sharps decline
1 I" go out on that limb
Put the Farmers Alm.mu'.
winch has been predicting
the weather (or 1711 years,
sees no 'tnmediate prospect
of any ih.mgc for the better.
In Us own inimitable wav, it
puts the .situation thus:
! "February will provide a
ma.-e and ha.-e and glaze, and
, even tlte bees will free.-e "
For March, it predicts -groans
and moans, chills with frills,
I doctor's bills "
Philosophy, on the other
hand, has been a curcular pur
cess because most philosoph.
ers hae devised abstract sys
tems and rules and theories,
hut hae nol observed them
selves and their fellow-men in
their existential condition.
The quotum of our identity
ami our relationships, our
proper roles as created beings,
have been answered tif at alii
by creed and custom, by rote
aiid by rule. And not until
we begin to ask the right ques
tions will we begin to get a
t!::r.::'.cr of a right answer.
-'. i I:: -". : -.3
"Glad you asked. It's what 'un American' means to ma
intolerance, injustice, inequality, insensitivity. In
vestigation, inflation, invasion, influence, inconsidtrt
tion ... I"
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