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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.
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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."
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