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
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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. We've given
9Vi billion dollars to France,
sale going on at
Barker's store for men
at Main and Central
Elks Lodge To Build
Big Retirement Home
Portland - (UPll - Plans for a
300-unit, 10 story retirement
home in southwest Portland
to cost $3.5 million weu an
nounced Tuesday by the Elks
Lodge.
The home will be located
on 9.5 acres of land at SW
25th ave. and Capitol High
way, providing the city coun
cil grants a zone change.
A 5
ABA PICKS VIRGINIAN
New Orleans-OIPB-Le -s F.
Powell Jr., 55, of Richmond,
Va., has been named president-elect
of the American
Bar Association.
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