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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1963 Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF COMPOSER JOHN GAGE, a favorite of the avant garde, probably will be remembered most fondly by his un dergraduate followers, anyhow for a composition entitled "i our Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds," which requires a pianist to sit in complete silence be fore the keyboard for four minutes and thirty three seconds, his eyes glued to a stop-watch, after which he stalks off the podium without hav ing played a single note. This is one piece you can play as well as Cliburn! The editor of a brand new digest magazine wired a famous author in Swit zerland offering him five thousand dollars for a "definitive article on the aims and significance of the Common Market." The writer accepted the assignment "Fine! Fine! Go to it," said the editor, "but please remember to confine your article to fifteen words." . SIGN HERE: Outside a dental parlor: "To keep your teeth in perfect condi tion, see your dentist twice a year and don't argue with your wife!" At a supermarket in Paramus, N. J.: "The Finest Liquors; the best fruits. Where the beer and the cantaloupe play!" In a store pushing low-priced swimming pools: "Instant Plea sure: Just Add Water." C 1963, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate 2-6 Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprise!, Inc. Harris , PERSONALITY TRAITS I was having lunch with a magazine publisher from New York, in the course of which he men- meamifrm uoned a man we botn Knew. J'S a m would make a fine e d i t o r," he said, "if only he would learn to give the other fel low a chance to speak up." "Yes," I agreed, "but then he wouldn't be Sam any more; he would be somebody else." One of the most frequent mistakes we make lies in assuming that a personality is a collection of traits, or that a personality is merely the sum of its parts. Personality is a way of organizing these parts. Sam's "bad trail" - his unwillingness to give oth ers a chance to speak up is directly related to his "good" trails. They are in tegrated in a complex struc ture, like a set of molecules, and removing or changing one would affect the whole nature of the structure. If we look at persons dy namically, and not simply as a static set of traiti, we can see that certain defects are the price they pay for their virtues, just a- ulcer or migraine is the price some people pay for their perfectionism or their pas sivity or their aggressive ness. This is why "pointing out" a bad trait to a col league or a subordinate even in a kindly ..rd well meaning way - usually does no good, and may ev do some harm. It makes him feel worse, and does not enable him to act any better. bad traits make the good ones possible, just as the path ology in the oyster produces the pearl. Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann (c) 1963. The Wxhington Poit llrrx 4-H NEWS Antelope Club Mothers of members of the Antelope Clothing and Cook' ing 4-H club were special guests at a Valentine party in the home of Mrs. Philip Nevin. Gifts were exchanged and luncheon was served. Gretchen Ousterhout gave a demonstration, "Crack-a-nut pie," after the cooking meet ing. Paulelte Anderson read a letter of thanks from the Veterans Administration dom iciliary for cookies and candy which members gave the men for Christmas. . The club's next meeting will be Feb. 16 at the home of Kathy and Janis Pritchard. A trip to a bakery is tenta tively planned. Gretchen Ousterhout Reporter. Central Point Spare Ribs The January meeting of the Central Point Spare Ribs 4-H club was held at the Central Point little gym. We talked about having a 4-H window in Croskell's hardware store in Central Point. Sue Cornutt and Judy Wilson gave a demonstration and the meeting was adjourn ed. Donald Herzog, Reporter When we single out one trait or characteristic and ask the person to change it, wc are really asking him to change the organization of hi? whole personality; and this is a formidable task for whir most of us are not eq.ipped e?pecially when it has taken us years of effort to achieve some success and equilibrium with this particular organiza tion of our traits. Perhaps we can see the problem more clearly if we conceive of the personality as a closely integrated learn oi acrobats who stand on one another's shoulders - three men beiow. then two on top of them, and finally one on the top. If we change the pc. sition of any one of the men or take one away, the whole act is different. And, indeed, it may be the man on the bot tom (who we find "undesir able") that enables the top man to maintain his precari ous balance. Of course, people change, and modify their conduct, and learn from experience if they arc open to it. But it is im portant to know that some Antelope Livestock The monthly meeting of the Antelope 4-H Livestock club was held at the Antelope school house. Roll call was answered by giving weights of steers. Bill Bigham, 4-H club lead er, talked about how the beef members should take care of their animals. Ron Anderson offered to help any of the beef members who had problems. Record books were passed out. The next meeting will be held Feb. 21. Kathy Pritchard, Reporter Happy Homemakers The Phoenix Happy Home' makers 4-H club met at the Phoenix High school home economics room recently. We had our annual breakfast meeting. First-year girls made fruit juices, second-year girl? made muffins and third and fourth - year girls prepared eggs, and fifth-year girls made cinnamon rolls. Peggy Barklow and Mindy haukett acted as hostesses. We aiso welcomea a new member to our club, Sharla Mankins. Our next meeting will be March 2. Karen Dill, Reporter THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DE GAULLE Speaking of the final re jection at Brussels of the British application to join the Common Market, the Times of Lon don says that "The imme diate task" for Britain "is to put her own house in order" and then con cludes by saying that Lippmann "Only radical measures will do now." If we ask ourselves what kind of radical measures, we are bound, I am afraid, to answer that, in excluding Britain from Europe and seeking to expel the United States, General de Gaulle is pushing the Western world away from liberalism and ever more deeply into protec tion, regimentation and gov ernment planning. If the British now take rad ical measures to earn their living, they will almost cer tainly have to face the pros pect of freezing wages, com pulsory arbitration, planned and directed capital invest ment and the regulation of private profits. CJEEN in its historical per- spective, Macmillan's de cision to apply for member ship in the European Econom ic Community and Kennedy's proposal for a transatlantic low - tariff trade partner ship were joint and parallel efforts to set the Western world on a liberal course. I would say in parenthesis that I am using the word "liberal" in its true and his torical meaning and not in the perverted meaning given to it by the early New Dealers and the latter day right-wing conservatives. A liberal econ omy is one in which the pre- pondent mass of economic transactions are made in free markets and not by decree of tile central government. Britain wanted the opportu nity to sell in the big Euro pean market, and it wanted to be stimulated by the com petition which industry in the United Kingdom would face as part of a bigger market. The United States has wanted a wider and freer world mar ket in which, as industry ex panded, prosperity would be more and more widely dif fused. This is the liberal eco nomic design which the gen eral has shattered. IN DOING this, he dealt not only with the British mem bership and the American partnership. He dealt also with the internal condition of the Common Market itself. There is no more signifi cant passage in the general's press conference of January 14 than the one in which he told the world and also the other five members what kind of economy they were going to live in. I quote the crucial paragraph in full. It will be much discussed in the days to come. "The system of the six consists of making a pool of the agricultural products of their entire community, of s t r i ctly determining their prices, of forbidding subsidizing, of organizing their consumption between all members and of making it obligatory for each of these members to pay the community any savings they might make by having foodstuffs brought in from outside instead of consum ing those offered by the Common Market." This says that the Common Market is to be a closed agri cultural system in which French foodstuffs, particular ly wneat and teed grains, are to have a monopoly at an arbitrarily high price. The other five members cannot obtain cheap foodstuffs from the Western Hemisphere. For although lliese are produced and sold at far lower cost, the so called variable levy brings their purchase price in Europe up to the high prire oi European teed and grain. This is meant to be a prohib itive penalty. Britain to take, and it may be in some lesser degree the United States as well, are not at odds with his own philos ophy. The system was estab lished before he took office in 1958, but under General de Gaulle, France has be come, by American and even British standards, a planned and directed economy. The general imposed a wage freeze when he first took of fice. That is now lifted, but France has planned capital investment to modernize and expand basic industry. The government enforces the plan which is drawn up by consul tation with industry, labor and agriculture, because it has - according to an estimate used by Mr. Dan Corditz, the Paris correspondent of the Wall Street Journal - under government control more than half of all investment funds through ownership of banks, large insurance com panies and the like. Whether the French sys tem will run into trouble as wages and prices rise is for the future. At present, the French system is performing so brilliantly that the general has nothing to worry about at home. Moreover, he can at ford to spend a lot of money on his nuclear weapons know ing that this spending will stimulate the French economy if it begins to slow down. All this will raise hard questions of policy in the United States. For myself, am sure of only one thing. It is that nobody now knows nil the answers. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The foreign news today? It's a mish-mash. If you can figure it all out, your're good. THE trouble seems to have started when we miffed the British by making them change their weapons plans from our Skybolt missile to our Polaris missile. In our dealings with Britain's Mac millan over the missile busi ness, we appear to have miff ed France's President De Gaulle, who felt that he was being left out of the lodge. So The dispatches suggest Feeling left out of the former U.S. British French lodge. President De Gaulle seems to have decided to start a lodge of his own. In his new lodge (axis, the diplomats call it) he first included Chancel lor Adenauer and his West Germany. There are broad hints that he is planning to include Spain in his new axis. (That story comes from Moscow, so we'd better take it with sev eral grains of salt.) and the sad fact is that France is not assuming her responsi bilities under NATO - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization." Senator Morse then added: "We're going to take a long look at how much more we're going to give France until she assumes her fair share of NATO." MEANWHILE We seem to have miffed the Canadians by telling them, rather bluntly, it ap pears, that their armed forces need U.S. nuclear weapons, and they'd better get 'em pronto. Now we seem to have EVERYBODY miffed at us. AH. tTr ME! This foreign alliances busi ness. It has its problems. HERE are times when - in -I spite of all the water that has gone under the bridge since 1796 - in spite of all the tremendous changes that have come about in the world Gold Beach Man's Car Found in River Gold Beach - ttJPP - A car owned by a missing Gold Beach man was found in the Rogue river four miles north of here Tuesday by Curry county sheriff's deputies. A search continued for Alex Hill, 61, missing since Sun day night. Skindivers were sent out from the sheriffs office after a motorist reported skid marks at the edge of a road 250 fret above the point where the car was found. since then - it is very difficult indeed to keep from agreeing whole heartedly with Presi dent Washington when in his Farewell Address to his coun trymen he said: "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have them as little POLITICAL connection as possible. "It is our true policy to STEER CLEAR of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. THAT suggestion MIFFS US. In particular, it miffs Ore gon's Senator Morse, who is a member of the august Sen ate Foreign Relations commit tee. In Washington, Senator Morse says: "If France wants to go it alone . . . then I think the French should be told to GO IT ALONE. The U.S. is giving more money to France than to ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. 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