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4 4 i MDFORDIkTBlBUNB ""Everyone In Southern Oreioa ReadiTne Mail Tribune' Kbilthed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North irBt Pb;77il-41 ROBERT W RUKL. Editor HERB GHEY Adverliinl Manaltt GKRALD T LATHAM, Bu. Mir ERIC ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS City MHor HARRY CH1PMAN, Telef Mltor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport Ed tor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. ClrcuUUon MI An Independent Newipeper Entered econd elm matter el Medlord. Oregon under Act of Mnrcti 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B MaU In Advance ... Daily and Sunday 1 year 111-00 Daily and Sunday moe 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. S.00 Sunday Only One year tS-00 Single Copy (Mailed) 0 By Cairiel-And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year Ml JO Daily and Sunday I mo 1-" Sunday Only I mo. aw Carrie! andendori jCopy 10c Official Paper of City of Medlord Olllrlal Paper trt Jackion tounty "United Prest International Kull Leaaed Wire U P 1 Telephoto Newnpicturei "MfMBir or AUDIT BUREAU U! UHUIWI Advertimns Reprekentatlve. NELSlitf ROBERTS t ASSOCI ATES Ol'icea In New York. Chi co Detroit. San FrancUco. Lot AngHra SeatUe. Portland Den'-er. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO yean aga in YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 19S3 (Wednesday) Agents of the Oregon Slate Tax commission will visit In Jackson county this month and next to assist taxpayers in filling out their state In come tax returns. R. D. (Bob) Church was named chairman of the Big Pines district of the Boy Scouts of America at a recent district meeting. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1943 (Monday) Medford High school bas ketball loam defeats Myrtle Point 44 to 26, to gain spot in playoffs for right to enter state tournament. From Arthur Perry's Ye r- Til' pnliimn! "Golf- . .,r ihn land are renortcd enthusiastic about Victory gardens. None as yet hero. ' abouts have sent to Scotland for a noe. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1933 (Wednesday) Oregon banks reopen after "bank holiday;" service still limited. County newspapers demand county judge resign and aid in restoring peace to Jackson county. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1923 (Thursday) Mrs. Nellie G. Reed named postmaster at Gold Hill. Central Point moving pic ture, in old opera house, to open doors for business next week. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1913 (Friday) Guv. Oswald West vetoes Rogue river fish bill: calls measure an Hltompt "to by pass people." Men sent to round up all strnv dogs pick up animal owned by Dogcatchcr Aydlall. What's Your I.Q.? Ml. frn rnrraet il SUDOrior: leven or eight li excellent; live or lii ll good. 1. In World War II, what was Operation Torch? 2. Which U. S. President was a bachelor during his en tire term? 3. Supply the next five numbers to this logical sc nuence: S 10 20. 8 16 32, 11 - 4. What was the cargo of the "Eleanor, BcHver and Dartmouth" which was lost overboard in a New England Harbor? 5. Name the only man who ran for President six times ft. Give the last name shared by renowed persons Willi first names of Helen Rutherford and Palrick Jo- soph. 7. One of each currently minted U. S. coin totals how much money? 8. What lrontiersman was holding a pair of eights In poker when It first became known as a "dead man's hand"? . What ts the only crime defined in the U. S. Consti tution? 10 What fictional character mistook an Inn for a castle and windmills for giants? Answers: 1. Allied invasion of North Africa. 2. Jemes Bu chanan. 3. 22 44. 14 28 56. 4. Tea (Boston Tea Parly). 5. Norman Thomas (Socialist Parly). 6. Hayes. 7. 91 cents. . Wild Bill Hickok. 9. Trea son. 10. Don Quixote. Legislative Concern Oregonians have, within recent memory, al- : i j ,1 .if, ,1 nt tkoii- ways uuen susjjiciuuo aim mouuauui ui intu elected representatives whether governor, other state or local official, or member of the legisla ture. More specifically, they have been distrustful of the legislature as a whole, more so than of its individual members. Why this is true is unclear, but the record speaks for itself. This year, alas, some members of the legisla ture seem to be going out of their way to demon strate that this basic distrust of the state's voters is not only justified, but well founded. THE trouble is that when one or two or a dozen members of the 90-member assembly put on a display of ignorance or pettiness or ill temper, all the rest of them suffer, for the damage done is to the "image" of the legislature as a whole. So, when some ridiculous incident is picked up by an ever-alert crew of reporters, and is spread throughout the state, many people get the idea that the legislature, as a whole, is goof ing off. "Don't they have anything better to do?" is a common query, and one revealing that there is little understanding of the ways of the assembly as a whole. ONE example can be found in John Dellen back's "cat bill." The measure is a perfectly legitimate one, designed to allow counties to set up systems of eat control similar to those now in effect for dog control. Yet, through "cute" reporting, and the snide pnmmonla nf fpllnw.Wisl;it.M's. the irnnression gained currency that all 90 nnrl Spnntp wptp entrap-prl heated debate about roaming cats, this, of course, simply wasn't so. The cat incident took up only a tiny fraction of the time spent so far, and en gaged the attention of only a small minority of tne memoers. A Ki'mi'ljir inpirlpnt. dress system which enabled the governor to listen TF 1-1. 1- 1- l-.l il in on House cieDaies, aiso was repuneu t.as it, should have been), yet the incorrect impression was given that this was a major issue, rather than an insignificant incident in a busy day. MINOR as they are, such incidents do detract fiTim rrin vooiioft rVio pIpftni'M tp npnnivls its lawmakers. It's too bad, However, major blunders such as the asi nine "local option" daylight time measure of two years ago also detract from that respect. It wasn't of really substantial importance, but it affected every voter in ed accordingly. A similar blunder, it that the legislators, once given the power to do so. raised their own salaries to a point far higher than expected by most observers; considerably higher than the level recommended by a lay com mittee appointed last fall to study the matter and give advice. This too has reacted against the "image the voters have OUR own concern about the current session is larhni' fllffoi-onf IUVIIVI UI..VIVI1V, Having- watched leeislative sessions for near ly two decades, we do not mind if they have a bit of fun and games once in a while to ease the tensions, or even vote themselves a bit more salary and expense money than we think is nec essary. This isn't important. Our real concern is is co inn to come to grins problem facing the state, financing and support of This, to us, is the one session of the legislature, beside which all others pale to relative insignificance. TT1E basic school support fund should be m- creased sharply, to bring state support of secondary education closer to the 50 per cent mark, and to reduce, if possible, local property taxes. The budget for the stale system of higher education was set in as realistic a manner as possible by the state board, on the advice of the administrators of the system. Then it was cut sharply by the Governor and his financial ad visors. Now there is sentiment in the ways and means committee for even more drastic reduc tions If these cuts are allowed to stand, the educa tion we can offer our young people will be water ed down to a level below what il is now, when, in fact, it should he raised and broadened. IMLIMHEKS of the legislature, and the public ac a whole, must be brought to understand that spending money on educating the young people of the state is an INVESTMENT in Ore gon s future. It is NOT pouring money down a rat-hole, nor is it going to fatten the empire of some ambitious bureaucrats. It is our children and our future we're talking about. It is the future well-being of the state and the nation. It is providing the new generations of young people the opportunity to prepare for a new and vastly different, vastly challenging world which is arriving. If the legislature, if the voters, are pusillanim ous about this, they simply are not facing the facts of life in the latter half of the 120th century. Let them have the vision to do so. E.A. members of the House in nnthinrr more than involving the nublic ad but that's the way it is. tne state, and they react seems to us, is the fact ot tne legislature. whether the legislature with the most serious namely, the atlctuiate education. overriding issue of this ntuunU li I BOOKING iqr,r "Look, Sweetie-Baby, would I bother you if he were Just another comic imitating Kennedy's voice? This guy's goi something different!" ... Communications ... Letters io the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification 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. Common Enemy To the Editor: Will the good people who are bird lovers and the good people who are cat lovers please get together and fight the real enemy? What do you think il is which is killing off our birds by the literal millions until finally we are being greeted by silent Springtimes-no birds singing, or even bees humming? I'll guarantee you that the poor maligned cats are not respon sible for an infinitesimal frac tion of.l per cent of this wan ton slaughter. The real enemy of the birds and also of every citizen in America, is tiie insane spray ing of our farm lands with in credibly poisonous insecti cides and weedicides now be ing used. I, myself, have seen as many as half a dozen dead robins where they had been drinking rain water from a road ditch where the county had sprayed weed killer. How many millions of birds do you suppose are killed this way each year? And how many by crop dusting and the eating of poisoned insects? This can be disastrous to our agriculture, for wherever the birds are killed off, the insects take over. Then great er quantities of more and more deadly insecticides must be used. The great tragedy of this is that an ever increasing amount of residues of cancer causing insecticides are show ing up in every mouthful of food we eat, especially our but ter, milk, meat, eggs and vege tables. In his article, "Farm Fall . Out Can Kill You," MHrch 1960 True Magazine, Hart Stillwcll stales, "We and our unborn children face a future of sterility, deformity, and a possible tremendous up surge of cancer because of poisons being flung almost heedlessly about the country. We are staging a preview of a real strontium !)0 fall-out, for the reactions of these poi sons on people is quite simi lar: blood cancer, bone mar row degeneration, liver ail ments, -mental illness, etc." Studies at Harvard Medical School showed that the genet ic results of these poisons may be catastrophic. So the infamy of the men who have loosed these deadly insecticides on Americans- is to live on for generations alter them. Cer tainly our bird life must be saved, to save our agriculture. But a cruel "Cat Control" law won't do it. For the sake of our unborn children we must all Join hands with our Wild Life and Game Commission, the Natural Food Associates, and parallel groups against our common enemy, the big, greedy chemical pressure groups, and stop (his Satanic, wholesale poisoning of Amer ica. Tony Giilli, 1720 S.W. Bridge, Grants Pass, Ore. Good Bill To the Editor: If the people who have written to your communications column about the Cat Control bill would lake time out to read the bill, thev would find that there is no mention of licensing or Happing in il. For lliose who are con cerned about the Humane as pects of the bill, a copy was sent to Washington, D. C, to the Humane Society of the United States, for their study, and it received their full ap proval. Mary Schwieger, Secretary of Cat Care Society, 1940 Orchard Home dr. Medford. A Bit of History To the Editor: Your aiticle. 'Tost Offices" lists Samuel Miller as first postmaster at Phoenix. This diflers from my research files, and in partic ular, from my notes from an article by Mrs. John Wheeler, I'iail, loiovnfo MLvrvnU, bimviuK who states that the little com munity, "about 1857," had grown up near the mill. A talkative lady who ran a little boarding house loaned a name, "Gasburg, but people there were not happy being so far from a post office. The Gov ernment said they could have their own Postoffice if a real name could be chosen and a postmaster recommended. The rebuilding of a burned building occurred so rapidly ("as a Phoenix from the ashes") that the name "Phoe nix" was selected, and Steph en Phelps Taylor, Methodist minister and Justice of Peace, was recommended as post master. He was appointed by Abraham Lincoln (per letter from National Archives) on May 27, 1862, and served until his successor, William A. Owens, was appointed, Sept. 10. 1863. Stephen Phelps Taylor, great-grandfather to present Commissioner .Edwin Taylor, led the "Preachers' Train" to Jacksonville from Rockford, 111., in 1853. A diary kept by his daughter, Rachel, gives ac count of this crossing by Taylor, later joined by T. J. Royal and train. It is especial ly interesting to note that Stephen Taylor was fair in dealing with Indian tribes on this trip, and although trains just - before and after them were attacked and massacred at Bloody Point, this train, proceeded by a reputation for kindness and fairness, passed the dangerous crossing, near Lost River, unmolested. Countless stories of human ity, faith, and justice, arc found in the history of the Taylor family, brought west by Stephen Phelps, and it is regrettable these stories are not made available for all who live here to enjoy, and to be inspired by. Mrs. Virginia D. Card, Jacksonville, Ore. Trading Stamps To the Editor: Fellow house wives, if you want to keep the privilege of collecting trading stamps, you had better write to our representatives. John Dellenback, Edward Branch field, and James Redden, in care of State Capitol, Salem. Rep. Eugene llulctt ID-Eu-gene) has introduced a bill which would do away with trading stamps in Oregon. Misleadingly called a "trading stamp regulation" bill, it would tax each trading stamp company $5,000 per county (SI 80.000 for the 36 counties in this state) for the privilege of doing business in Oregon. As a further insult to our intelligence, the bill provides that the proceeds from this tax will be used to reduce our properly taxes. What pro ceeds? Does anyone think any trading stamp company could, or would, pay such an out rageous tax? If the merchants want to stop giving trading stamps, obviously they can make a voluntary agreement among themselves to do so. Since they don't make such an agreement, it must be (rue that they are benefiting from the practice of giving trading ' stamps. So who does want trading stamps outlawed? It must be the merchants who don't give them. Why should these few be allowed to impose their wishes on the majority of mer chants who do give stamps, and the thousands of house wives who receive and save them? I remember two previous occasions on which such a bill u-u introduced in the Legis lature and killed because of ' Smog the objections of the women I To the Editor: We read voters who save trading I with great interest your edi stamns. So it will be nossible 1 torial on pollution control. to defeat this current bill if we will all write and express our wishes to our state repre sentatives. Judging from previous ex perience, a number of women Principal Threat to Rapidly Developing France Is By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst A large portion of Presi dent Charles de Gaulle's con tinuing popularity among the French people is his undis puted claim that they nev er had it so good. French incomes are going up. Eco nomically, the country is de veloping fast er than Ger AS4L Vewsom many and more than twice as fast as either the United States or Britain. There is a healthy surplus of exports over im ports. France, once the sick man of Europe, now is the strong man. But there also is a problem which could drastically alter the picture. The problem is creeping in- who don't like the bother of saving and pasting stamps into books will write letters saying they want the stamps outlawed. Well, if they have such a "dog in. the manger" attitude, I can't prevent them writing letters. But I cannot understand why they should feel like that. It does seem rather selfish. Mrs. Vera I. Stewart P.O. Box 141 Gold Hill, Ore. Bill a Threat To the Editor: Oregon House Bill 1463 is of signal importance to every man, woman, and child in the State. It is a threat to the indivi dual's Integrity because it would tax any fraternal or ganization "Which is not a college fraternity or sorority," and "All houses of worship . . . the lots on which they are situated, and the pews, slips and furniture therein," as well as "all burial grounds, tombs and rights of burial, and all property of any cema tory association . . ." In ad dition to "Parking lots main tained (by such organiza tions).' II is dangerous be cause it is a threat to the Con stitutional guarantees so im portant to the perpetuation of the American ideal of free dom. Not only would such legis lation place an additional fi nancial burden on these or ganizations and their mem bers, it would permit Govern ment to gain a foothold in dictating to organizations that have, since the founding of this great Republic, held sac red the right of free choice in the manner of their func tioning. Because of what HB 1463 does not say, Government could insist that unless or ganizations comply with rules of procedure set up by the State, Government -m i g h t raise the tax base in order to force compliance wilh its wishes. Remote as such invi dious pressures may seem, they arc not beyond the realm of possibility. They have oc- cureri in oilier lands; they could happen here. Someone has said that "The power to tax is the power to regulate." Consider the plight of religion in Poland. While Ihc Polish government docs not express ly forbid the practice of re ligion, it has taxed churches and church property to such an extent that the organized practice of religion has been made an almost physical im possibility. House Bill 1463 proposes to tax the organizations, describ ed above, at the of 19 of the allowable 25 per cent tax base the first year, 29 the second year, and ".a the third year. It does not specify that this rising tax scale shall be limit- cd to the third year rate. Fu ture legislative assemblies could increase this tax rate. It is concicvablc, too, that such a tax program might, in the future, incorporate pro visions limiting and or inter fering with the freedom of worship and the free process es of American democratic I action. And by the fact of the pas- sauc or a tax bill such gS --" r-. House Bill 14tS3. the right of i to establish such pre-censor-challenge against such inter- j sl"P without downgrading all ferenee would be seriously i information media to a point hindered. . The Rev. Theodore J. Enrich, vicar St. John's Episcopal church 10th and G sts. Springfield, Ore. Immediately I wrote to Gov Hatfield We lived all of our lives in Pasadena, Calif., and saw the menace of smog creeping up on us. The populace wrote Inflation; flation, which has seen the cost of living jump 5.3 per cent in the last year and 17 per cent since De Gaulle de valued the French franc in 1959. The result is that individual Incomes barely have kept pace with increasing prices and in some cases have fallen In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A bipartisan Senate group headed by the majority lead er. Democrat Mike Mansfield of Montana, is urging a clamp- down on U.S. aid to South east Asia and a thorough reas sessment of security needs there. These senators say $5 bil lion in economic and military aid has been poured into that part of the world since 1950, and they question whether much has been accomplished by all this spending. Senator Mansfield says: "What' is most disturbing is that Vietnam "-w appears to be, as it was seven years ago when I first saw it, only at the BEGINNING OF A BE GINNING in coping with its grave inner problems. ... It is most disturbing to find that after seven years of the re public South Vietnam appears LESS, not more, stable than it was at the outset, and MORE REMOVED FROM, rather than closer to, the achievement of popular and responsive government." WHAT'S in the back of Sen ator Mansfield's mind -and the minds of the senators associated wilh him in this bi-partisan group that is tak ing a sharp new look at our position in Southeast Asia? These men are educated men. They are familiar with history and mythology. They letters, held public meetings, and voted in legislation to abate smog. A smog control board was formed and func tioned fairly effectively, warning the oil refineries to install proper equipment and filters, etc. So soon, though, the board became ineffective, the smog worsened and these highly paid board members were helpless to correct the situation. There was too much pressure on them on a local level. State level, perhaps is the answer. These laws must have sharp teeth in them, and no favoritism can be shown any company or business. We finally became sick of the whole situation and liter ally sick from the effects of smog. We have lived here now 1V4 years and love it. Strike hard with another editorial and another before it's too late, and we have Southern California's same problem! Mr. and Mrs. Bill Macy Route 4, Box 458 Grants Pass, Ore. Friend to Everyone To the Editor: It is not giv en to niany men. in the world of today, to win the good-will of all who know them. While he was with us, the late domiciliary postmaster, Ar thur Scarseth, was a friend to everyone, with ever a word of cheer and a smile, regard less of how he. himself, was feeling at the moment. Now he is gone and his absence will be sorely felt for a long lime. David Frisch P.O. Box 202 White City, Ore. Precious Possession To the Editor: The first amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States reads, in part, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establshment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging the free dom nf snccch. nr nf the press . -. Yct pcrcnniav the Orpson legislature is beset bv one or more groups of people bent on a law to pre-censor news media, including publi cations, speech, radio, theater, dance or "anything obscene." One question that imme diately presents itself is how they can hope to do this with out violating the Constitution which is our great bulwark of free ideas and information: the censor deems safe for the minds of our children without automatically barring a 1 1 adults from access to any news media except that deem ed fit for child minds. But the most difficult ques tion is, who is qualified to decide for me what 1 shall read, hear and see? And that question must be broadened to include every citizen with the thousand diverse ideas that are the basis of our civil izations Certainly the church peoplr would not be pleased with me as a censor, and would insist that the censor- Pay Raises considerably below them. So long as he had the Al gerian war to worry about, De Gaulle was able to remain fairly aloof from the problem and leave it in the hands of his experts. The French government is the nation's largest single em ployer and it is the unions in are obviously asking mem- selves if it isn't about time for Uncle Sam to quit playing Old Man Atlas. WHO was Atlas? He win the eianl who was ordered by Zeus to CAR RY THE WORLD ON HIS SHOULDERS. He did so - for centuries. But, eventually, he became faint with weariness. One day Perseus flew by, car rying with him the head of Medusa, which turned anyone who saw it into stone. Atlas begged Perseus to let him look at the Medusa head, and was thereby changed into the stone that is now the Atlas mountains. THERE are signs that our old Uncle is getting weary of the burden of carrying the world on his shoulders. INCIDENTAL question: Where does our word ATLAS come from? It comes from this giant Atlas. A picture of him car rying the world on his shoul ders was printed on the first page of the earliest books of maps. So a book of maps is still called an Atlas. T ET'S get on with the news. " In the lounge of a ski resort in the Vermont moun tains, a local news photogra phcr in the course of his job aimed his camera at Sen. Ed ward M. Kennedy, the new est member of what cynics are beginning to call the Ken nedy dynasty, and snapped a picture. Senator Kennedy grabbed the camera, tore its leather case at the seam, pulled out the roll of exposed film and held it against a light until it was ruined, and then dropped it into a waste basket. 0???????? Well, the brother of the President of the United States, who has just been elected to the Senate of the United States, is of course entitled to his privacy. If, on a Sunday, he wants to whoop it up at a ski resort, thai is his privilege But- In the white light that doth beat about the White House if one may paraphrase Alfred Lord Tennyson's lines about the "fierce light that doth beat about a throne" - there is no such thing as privacy. When an American enters that circle, he must learn to leave his privac- behind. Young Ted will learn that in time. ing authority be, if possible chosen from the membership of established churches. In which case I would be con strained to remind them that some of the most obscene lit erature in the English lan guage is contained in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Do they cut those chan ters out before allowing their children to read the Bible? Or do they teach their chil dren to judge and evaluate so they can face life with the knowledge to choose between good and evil? As an ex-teacher and fa therther of six children 1 have studied this problem for many years and I am still firmly convinced that it is the duty and privilege of the par ents, the school, and the church to teach our children in such a way that they can walk through all the evils of the world with the knowledge that makes them safe and un afraid. Overt acts are punishable by law and I believe we all agree that a more strenuous enforcement and possibly a strengthening of the law is a necessity of our time, but freedom of thought and ex pression is America's most precious possession, and if the time ever comes when it ca:i he pre - censored. Democracy is on the way out! Dr. Ivan Fritts 794 Fortner Lane Ontario, Ore. Union of Free Men To the Editor: When will the Russians, the Chinese, etc., devour their despots? No one knows. But if NATO soon grows Into a federal union of free men, will it not be impreg nable against each evil tyran ny which rears its head' Each tyranny such as Fascism, Nazism. "Communism," etc? Al How land 230 Park ave. New York 17. N Y. k Asked state-owned industries who now are ready to make their bid. In the state-run coal mines. some 230,000 workers have scheduled a two-day walkout for March 1 and 2. It is possi ble they will be joined by nearly 500,000 others on the state-run railroads and in the state-run gas and electricity industries. The De Gaulle government has appealed to private em ployers to limit wage increas es to 4 per cent per year. But France has a labor shortage and the pressure of demand has in some cases forced wages up to more than twice the government ceiling. This is the prosperity in which the government work ers now demand they be al. lowed to participate. They are supported by the Communists, who demand that savings resulting from the end of the Algerian war be pumped into wages instead of new armament. De Gaulle's determination to protect French agriculture was a prominent factor in his veto of British membership in the European Common Market. Agriculture remains the largest industry in France, but it operates at an efficiency below that of its neighbors. The government is pushing a program of modernization and is attempting to siphon off a sizable portion of farm work ers into industry. Solutions to the problem! of labor and agriculture are necessary if the wage-price spiral is not finally to wipe out the economic miracle of France. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c. Field Enterprise!, Inc. Speaking at a college re cently, I became involved in the familiar controversy about a "1 i b e r a 1 arts" educa tion versus vocational o r technical training. O r, more succinct ly stated, edu cation for liv ing versus education for making a liv ing. I am wholly on the side of the liberal arts, and the older I get the more I observe the melancholy consequences of too early specialization. It forces a man into a mold from which he is rarely able to break out in later years. The French have a phrase -indeed, the French have a phrase for everything - "une deformation professionel 1 e." This means a professional deformation, a kink of per sonality, that afflicts men who too , closely identify their whole selves with their occu pation. This is a dangerous ten dency, for oneself and for others, especially among professional people - for it subordinates the whole man to the function of the man, and his spirit soon loses lis individuality and its authen ticity. In his interesting brief book on depth - psychology and pastoral care. Father Josef Goldbrunner makes this point most tellingly: "Professional life com pels the soul io put on a uniform. For example, the teacher must always know more than the pupils. His task bestows authority and power upon him. The pre ponderance of person at teacher, applied to begin with at the right time and place, gradually becomes a habit and taken for granted. . "The husband. and father, the whole man, acts like a teacher. He gradually begins to schoolmaster every thing and everybody . . . Instead of leaving his 'uniform' at school and becoming a 'civilian again, instead of being the man Nature intended him to be, there is the danger that the teacher may identify him self wilh his role, and become incapable nf separately him self from it. "He no longer knows he i playing a role and always wearing a mask 'in front of his spiritual face. The mask Inserts itself between his real nature and the world, as the Greek actor wore the persona (mask). Thus, we have the per sona of the official, the clergy man, etc. The weaker a man's nature is. and the greater his personal vanity, the more he runs the danger of mistaking" his persona for himself. "His character fails to de velop, it gets set in a groove. The vital energies of the soul are forced inlo a strait-jacket and fullness of life is rendered impossible. Anything that docs not fit into the persona is repressed and slips back into the unconscious." i
