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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1953 (Sunday)
Medford High school's bas
ketball team gains place in
Oregon Class A basketball
tournment by downing Crater
High school 67 to 43.
Phoenix city council post
pones purchase of police radio
setup.
20 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1943 (Monday)
Medford bakers resume
slicing bread as official order
on the ban -lifting comes
through.
tr-nm Arthur Perry s "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Cof
.iiaiitniea are now the
.... Manv hold some of the
substitutes are not even sub
stitutes.
30 YEARS AGO
M.rrh g. 1933 (Wednesday)
Headline states "Evidence
chain in ballot theft held com
plete. Police forging ironciea
tinir. in Hontriiction of votes.
More arrests to follow Is word
of authorities." .
Mail Tribune editorial
praises Medford merchants in
adoption of a scrip program.
40 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1923 (Thursday)
Two Portland drummers
fined $5 each for turning
around in the middle of Main
st. block.
Window full of newborn
chicks In downtown store at
tracts wide attention.
50 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1813 (Saturday)
Rush of taxpayers causes
increase In force in sheriff's
rtffirr-
Police round up a group of
youngsters who have "been
Tilnvlni! hookey from school
and raising ncd nights
West Jackson st."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at tan correct ll superior;
tevan or eight Is acIUnti (le ei
sis it good.
1. Where, in Africa, is
Table Mountain?
2. American cheese orlgl-
natcd in America; where did
India ink originate?
3. To what Canadian city
with the Initial "M" would
you go to sec Mount Royal?
4. The Spanish called the
river Colorado to Indicate
that it was what color?
8. Is a car going 46 miles
rier hour going slower or fast
cr than a ship making 46
knots?
6. Does a thaumaturglsi
play a musical Instrument
dance or do magic?
7. One lyric writer lost his
"true lover by a-courllng too
slow"; where?
8. Until a few years ago
we believed there were 92
elements; we have now post'
tively identified how many?
9. Arrange four 9 s so that
they equal 100.
10. In what sport a r
frames and lines the division
of play?
Answers: 1. Capetown
China. 3. Montreal. 4. Red
S. Slower. 8. Magic, 7, "On
top of Old Smoky." 8. Mor
than 100. 9. 99 99. 10. Bow
ing.
Washington-Wfr-The House
has scheduled a vote Tuesday
on a proposal to make Si
Winston Churchill an honor
ary citizen of the Unite
States. House leaders predict
ed unanimous approval for
the measure sponsored by
Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-
roiiisHUi
VjjJJ-AMOCIATION
Pa.).
FRIDAY, MARCH 1. 1963
Signs, Tactics
The State of Hawaii bans billboards, period.
As a result their highways and scenic areas are
unsnoiled bv parish commercialism. -
Despite this, we are convinced there is a place
for billboards in our society and our economy.
They serve a useful function in informing travel
ers when they are coming to gas-food-lodging
accommodations, and sometimes other attrac
tions. We would like to see billboards so regulated
that only those which perform a definite service
to the traveler are allowed, thus eliminating beer,
bread and brand-name advertising from the pub-
lie tax suDSiay, in me 101m ui niguway uiopiaj
space and a "captive audience," which they re
ceive from the traveling public.
Thev also should be confined to appropriate
locations where they cause
ter.
WE DO NOT believe this attitude is unreason
able, although sign company representatives,
for very obvious reasons, would disagree.
Still, we are convinced that the sign compa
nies are going to simply put themselves out of
business unless they take a less intransigent atti
tude toward the public's demand for uncluttered
highways. The tide is running against them, and
they'd better recognize the fact.
For instance, a columnist in the Seattle Argus
expressed an increasing
in part:
"It is amazing that the billboard interests In the
state have the gall to try for a modification of the
legislation of 1961, which was a mild attempt to limit
the use of billboards on our major roads , . .
"Instead of modification of present restrictions, an
effort should be made to eliminate billboards entirely.
We are going to make a major effort to attract tourists
to the state, and this will cost millions of dollars dur
ing the next 10 years. If, instead, we planned the
complete elimination of all billboards from our roads
during that same period, we would make our state a
tourist paradise ...
"Viewed objectively, the billboard firms are really
parasites, who live off the money taxpayers spend
building roads, which they then proceed to clutter
with billboards . . . They are impossible to avoid,
unlike advertisements in newspapers and magazines,
or those on radio or television. They can easily be
legislated out of existence, and one can only wonder
why this has not already been accomplished. Once
this blight in eradicated, what a magnificent vista
would greet our weary eyes!"
OUR VIEW of billboards is not quite not
OTTTTP1. cc pvirpmp as this. As noted, we
believe some of them serve a certain function, if
carefully controlled and
tsut mere are me lacucs 01 me uiuuuaru com
panies, with certain exceptions, which really are
lri-itatinr.
They have the effrontery to claim that these
huge, distracting monsters actually maKe nign
wav drivinc safer.
Well, read this item from the March 11 issue
of the U.S. News and World Report:
"Albany, N.Y. - A survey on the New York State
Thruwav showed this:
"Accidents in which state police listed the probable
cause as 'driver Inattention' were THREE TIMES as
numerous per mile In areas with billboards alongside
the road than as in sections without advertising signs."
Let the Medford planning commission, the
city council, and the joint
take careiui note, a auu per cent increase m u ai
fie accident potentiality is something we can
hardly afford on our elevated ireeway. &.A.
Trading
A laree brown paper
wall in the utilitv room at
by day, are dumped the
tne trading stamps given
and other purchases.
The glove compartment or the car usually is
cluttered with the little squares of colored paper,
oftentimes stuck together
separate.
Once every so often, the glove compartment
is cleaned out and the stamps dropped into the
brown paper sack. And, every few months, a
great pasting bee is put on, to paste the elusive
little things into books for redemption.
WE DON'T like the stamps. They are a bother
and a nuisance. We'd just as soon have
lower prices as the trading stamps.
But, since the Family Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare is an eminently practical
and realistic individual, and since they are of
fered, why not accept them, and take advantage
of the premiums they can provide?
That, we suspect, is pretty close to the phi
losophy of a lot of individuals. They're a bother,
but they're there, so . . .
X7ITH this unenthusiastic but practical atti-
tude, one might be expected to support legis
lation now under consideration in tne Oregon
legislature which would, in effect, outlaw pre
mium trading stamps.
We do not, however, support this bill. We
think it is a discriminatory measure, and just one
more restriction of fair competition, and freedom
to do business in the way one wishes.
Trading stamps, as such, harm no one. No
merchant is forced to cive them away; no con
sumer is forced to accept or save them.
We never have, and never will, trade at one
store in preference to another because of the
stamps. We question their value as a trade stimu
lant. We don't like them.
But to outlaw them, in effect, by the police
and licensing power of the state is bad legisla
tion. The bill should be killed. E.A.
and Safety
the least possible clut
sentiment when he said,
regulated.
committee therefrom,
Stamps
sack hangs against the
our house. Into it, day
odd bits and pieces of
out wim tne groceries
so they are oiuicuit to
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Signs ef Glory
To the Editor: City Coun
cil and Sign Companies, why
all this squabble over a few
signs here and there?
I think I have a solution
to your problem, then every
one will be happy.
Councilmen, it seems the
signs are marring your view
of this beautiful city of Med
ford while you re traveling
on the Freeway. Now iei s
look at the city as a whole,
and forget about the signs.
Do you actually like what
you see from up there? Kinda
looks like some larger citys
dump don't you think?
So, why not let the sign
company contract to paint
those roofs with advertise
ments say, a motel could
have on top, "This is where
Rip Van Winkle slept so com
fortably he just couldn i wane
up." Draw a little character
snoozing away.
A restaurant could say on
the roof, "Are you trying to
lose weight? Here's the place
to find it." With a character
licking his chops.
Now, that cow could never
have jumped over the moon
if some hamburger stand had
landed it with a dish and
spoon, and left the poor little
dog crying on his roof top.
You drug stores could even
have that lady on T.V. who's
in love with her soap.
Or hubby could be running
competition with Charlie, try
ing to get his girl by not
using "greasy kid stuff." Also
father always uses shaving
cream that has tiie sexy little
Jeanie pop out so he can flirt
with her.
And there's mom docs
she or doesn't she? "She do,"
as her wrinkles all disappear
along with the coloring of her
hair. Pop loves her again.
Feed stores, put the little
ducks and the dog eating
chow on your roof. Where's
the dog? I don't see any dog.
Aron t they cute?
Dig up all kinds of Fairy
Tale characters, find the one
to suit your need to be ar
tistic, drawn on your roof top.
Bet one thing, it could make
the tourist stop.
Mrs. Irma Henderson
729 Dakota ave.
Medford.
Kudos from Afar
To the Editor; Congratula
tions on your new "find"
the columnist with the horn-cd-rlm
specs, J.W.S., whoever
he is. His puckish humor sort
of reminds me of Medford's
erstwhile celebrated key-collector,
what's his name?
same initials. Could this be
the same tricky fellow? How
much Is the Optometrists As
sociation paying him for the
free publicity?
Gene W. Rossman
2338 SW Osage
Portland. Ore.
V.A. Blind Spot
To the Editor; There is one
very grave omission in the
controversial correspondence
relative to the establishment
of surgical facilities at this
V.A. Domiciliary. The zealous
one-man crusade of our David
Frisch has provoked opinions
from many Including our Sen
ators, Con gressmcn, service
organization officers and even
from Dr. Middlcton, leading
medico of the Veterans Ad
ministration. Yet. where in all
this well-meaning confusion is
the authoritative com m c n t
from our director. C. T. Jack
son or from our chief medical
officer, Dr. E. G. Everett!
No one has heard of or from
them!
Thoroughly con v e r s a n t
with the surgical needs of the
some thousands of veterans
resident in this area of Ore
gon and Northern California
these two men arc the natural
and most authoritative news
source we have. Either -Man-
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
Of Thu!"
necessarily represent th
aging Editor Eric Allen is
amiss in not having shot a re
porter out to interview these
major figures in this militant
contention or our administra-
ciatt le caHlv nt fault, in
not fully enlightening the
eran-public with the true
status of the debate and the
actual findings of all - if any
research completed on the
problem. This data surely is
not "classified."
All this is become news and
we now urge the M-T to prop
erly cover it! The Kennedy
cooling process lor report
ers does not extend into V.A.
affairs so there's naught for
E.A. to be afraid of - imagine!
And, as for our Director Jack
son and Doctor Everett, excel
lent as they are in their par
ticular administrative fields -they
surely have much to
learn concerning public rela
tions. They evidently believe
it applies to the brothers and
sisters of JFK.
William Thomas Cuddy
V.A. Domiciliary
White City, Ore.
Papers Defended
To the Editor: Mr. Walter
Lippmann accuses our news
papers - the Arizona Republic
and the Phoenix Gazette of
Phoenix, Ariz. - of support
ing an American "War
Whoop" party. According to
Mr. Lippmann, the War
Whoopers want "the fruits
of a successful war without
having to fight a war," and
they advocate all sorts of
"carefree and irresponsible"
adventures against Cuba, in
cluding an American invasion
and occupation. Mr. Lipp
mann says he bases his con
clusions on reading our papers
and especially our editorials
for one week.
I wonder if Mr. Lippmann
has read any of our editorials
carefully? He has certainly
completely misunderstood our
editorial policy.
As publisher of the Arizona
Republic and the Phoenix
Gazette, I would like to ex
plain our true editorial posi
tions. 1. We do not advocate an
invasion or an occupation of
Cuba. What we do advocate -
and have done so for many
months - is a forceful Ameri
can policy aimed at Castro's
isolation and eventual over
throw. We think that an
American partial blockade or
quarantine can be one of the
effective instruments of such
a policy, especially as it has
the support of the Latin-
American states. We also be
lieve that the anti-Castro re
sistance movement should re
ceive more active United
States backing. This last
point, Incidentally, was
strongly recommended in a
very sensible and constructive
editorial published Sept. 29,
19H2, in the Washington Post
(now Mr. Llppmann's home
newspaper).
2. We don't believe - as
Mr. Lippmann thinks we do
- that the Russians "will not
go to war no matter what
we do to them." The Russians
will certainly go to war to
defend themselves from at
tack. But we do not believe
that the Russians would go
to war to defend Castro. We
believe that Soviet Premier
Khrushchev is a very shrewd
politician - the shrewdest the
Communists have had in Mos
cow for a long time. Besot
as he is with very serious
Internal troubles, Mr. Khru
shchev would not, in our opin
ion, do anything reckless in
order to challenge an Ameri
can naval blockade on Cuba.
Still less is he likely to risk
a nuclear war in order to
save Castro from an American-supported
anti-Castro up
rising. May I say that we are not
trying to be "wise after the
event." The day President
Kennedy proclaimed the
American quarantine, last Oc
tober, we wrote that the Htis-
OREGON
Kashmir Issue Settlement Threatened
By New Complication Involving
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
A new issue has come up to
complicate an old quarrel be
tween India and Pakistan.
The issue
deals with
Kashmir and
Pakistan's ac
tion in sign
in g a bor
der agree
ment with
Red China for
a section of
Kashmir bor-
- der which al
so is under dispute with India.
Unfortunately, the action
comes just at the time when
the Indians and the Pakis
tanis are preparing to resume
in Calcutta their own Kash
mir negotiations.
Heretofore, it had been felt
those negotiations were going
surprisingly well and that
there might be reached a solu
tion to a problem which had
poisoned relations between
the two neighbors almost
views of th piper; in fact th
sians woulc accept It and
would not initiate any mili
tary counter-measures.' We
maintained that attitude
throughout the whole Cuban
crisis, while a lot of "liberal
vet-pommentators, including Mr.
Lippmann, expected the Rus
sians to "challenge" the
American Navy or to start
a nuclear war. For us, the
chances of nuclear war last
October were minimal. They
were, in fact, non-existent,
and we said so.
I dare say we proved to
be right which is, perhaps,
one of the reasons Mr. Lipp
mann doesn t like us.
Eugene C. Pulliam,
Publisher,
Arizona Republic
and Phoenix Gazette,
Phoenix, Ariz.
Job Insecurity
To the Editor: The current
rash of railway labor dis
putes over job Insecurity and
work rules presents a revolt
ing spectacle of cannibalism
inflicted on an ailing indus
try. Political opportunists sold
labor the unrestricted power
to destroy itself and its jobs.
The same political oppor
tunists:
1. Lure away railroad pas.
sengers with bargain air fares
paid half out of subsidies.
2. Entice railroad freight
traffic onto the black carpet
of tax provided super-high
ways.
3. Pour huge pork barrels
of tax money Into canals of
doubtful value and protect
the blessed barge operators
with umbrella rates against
effective railroad competi
tion. It seems a tragic waste of
effort for the Brotherhoods to
furiously pump dust from dry
wells of railroad revenue. In
cooperation with rail manage
ment they could successfully
puncture the monstrous politi
cal featherbed of non-rail
transport and thereby restore
jobs gone beyond the reach
of legislation or negotiation,
K. Fritz Schumacher,
(Former Santa Fe "Rail")
81 West Grand View ave,
Sierra Madre, Calif.
In the Day's News
8y FRANK JENKINS
This modern world note.
A San Francisco man got
himself a credit card from the
telephone company and ran
up a $10,000 debt on it.
HMMMMMMMM.
He's a piker.
The New Deal-Fair Deal
New Frontier got itself a cred
it card from the American
people and has run up a 300
BILLION DOLLAR debt on
it.
VROM Washington:
Monday was President
Kennedy's night to get patted
on the head-figuratively, of
course-like a small boy.
The occasion was the Labor
Department's 50th birthday
party. And Kennedy, the 45
y car-old featured speaker,
was repeatedly made to seem
a mere stripling.
IfRANCES PERKINS, secre
tary of labor in the admin
istration of Franklin D. Roos
evelt, recalled doing business
50 years ago with the depart
ment's first secretary. William
Wilson. Turning to Kennedy,
Miss Perkins-now Hearing her
81st birthday-patted the Pres
ident on the shoulder and
added: "That was before you
were born, sir."
W. Willard Wirtz. present
secretary, made a similar
statement. He reported that at
the time of the department s
founding the President's fath
er, Joseph P. Kennedy, was a
Massachusetts bank examiner
-and childless.
VICE- PRESIDENT Lyndon
B. Johnson recalled th.t
from the first day each
achieved independence.
The question has been
asked just why Pakistan
chose to act as it did at this
particular time.
The Pakistan response has
been that the negotiations
with Red China were pro
posed in March 1961, long be
fore anyone could foresee the
crisis in Indian-Chinese rela
tions, and was entirely unre
lated to that conflict.
The explanation has not ap
peased the Indians who have
accused the Pakistanis both
of endangering their own ne
gotiations and of conducting
give-away program for the
Red Chinese.
The Pakistan agreement
covers a 300-mile stretch of
border beginning where the
borders of China, Afghanistan
Washington Report
By William
(c) United Feeture Syndicate
G.O.P. IN THE SOUTH
Austin, Tex. - Presi dent
Kennedy is in serious trouble
in the South, but there is
neverthel ess
n o assurance
whatso ever
that the Re
publicans thems elves
will profit
much from
that c i rcum
stance in next
y e a r's presl-
whit dential elec
tions. Indeed, this region - of
which giant Texas is kingpin
in electoral power much as
New York state is in the East
is with fine impartiality
raising the most sticky prob
lems for both parties against
the approach of the 1964 cam
paign year.
Sentiments of rebel lion
against the Kennedy adminis
tration have undoub t e d 1 y
been steadily rising in recent
months. At the same time,
however, practical Republican
prospects for usefully exploit
ing this situation must be de
scribed as very iffy. Demo
cratic politicians of demon
strated realism and loyalty to
the national party are thus
not nearly so alarmed as ordl-
narily they would be at the
Kennedy slide in popularity,
FOR they reason that the
G.O.P. will not in any
event be able to break heavily
into the erstwhile Solid South
in 1964 except in the unlikely
event that the Republican na
tional convention next sum
mer should give the presi
dential nomination to Senator
Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
This area, so far as its
emerging Republican party is
concerned, is strictly Gold
water country. Rank-and-file
and "big" Republicans alike
are attached to him with the
deepest fervor shown in that
party since the late Robert A.
Taft of Ohio held the un
questioning loyalty in the
Middle West of the G.O.P.
23 years ago, as a congress
man, he had heeded an appeal
from Miss Perkins to sign a
petition advancing legislation
to establish a minimum wage
of 25 cents an hour.
With a bow to Kennedy,
Johnson reminded his audi
ence that all this happened
"even before the President
COULD VOTE."
T.fOST of us have a vague
A" Idea that there was
time in the world when the
oldest and the wisest member
was chosen by the tribe as its
chicf-on the theory that EX
PERIENCE was necessary if
the tribe was to be governed
wisely.
2,000 years ago
There was Alexander. He
was only 22 when he crossed
the Hellespont (the ancient
name for what we now call
the Dardanelles) and started
out to conquer the world. He
was only 25 when at the bat
tle of Arbela he overthrew
Darius the Persian and took
over the Persian Empire that
had so long threatened
Greece.
He was only 29 when he
reached the rich plains of
India and completed the con
quest of the then known
world - and is said to have
sighed because there were NO
MORE worlds to conquer.
HPHEN there was Napoleon
A He entered military
school at the age of 10. He re
ceived his firt commission in
the French army at the age
of 16. At the siege of Toulon
where his real military career
started, he was 24. He was 26
when his "whiff of grapeshot'
cleared the streets of Paris of
what he called the "canaille
And
He was only 46 at Waterloo
I ET'S add as a historical aft-
erthought
Both Alexander and Napol
eon left their countries
swamped in debt. S
il
and Pakistan meet, across the
top of some of the worlds
highest mountains and end
ing at a point near an Indian
outpost in the Ladakh area
which India and Communist
China are disputing.
Pakistan remains a close
ally of the United States and
long has been regarded as the
Western anchor of the free
world's defense line which
runs along the Asian perime
ter all the way to Korea.
But the Pakistanis equally
have not been reticent in ex
pressing their resentment
against recent U.S. military
aid to India which they con
tend might someday be turn
ed against themselves.
Despite these and other re
sentments, there remains hope
that the Kashmir dispute still
can be solved.
S. Whit
regulars of his era.
Men whose political judg
ment and candor this column
ist has long had reason to
respect are firm in the con
viction that the more likely
Republican presidential
choice. Gov. Nelson Rockefel
ler of New York, would not be
able to do even as well against
Mr. Kennedy in the South as
Richard Nixon did in 1960.
Nixon won two of the 11
states of the Old South, Flor
ida and Virginia, along with
the border states of Tennessee
and Kentucky. Alabama and
Mississippi cast their electoral
votes for Senator Harry F,
Byrd of Virginia.
rpHE Republican convention
a- decision tn denv thp nomi.
nation to Senator Goldwater
would cause the hitherto
booming G.O.P. movement in
the South to go home in anger
and disgust to sit it out on
election day. There is also the
fact that if President Ken
nedy's civil rights views are
thought in much of this sec
tion to be extreme, those of
Governor Rockefeller are in
fact so much more advanced
as to make the President look,
relatively, almost conserva
tive on the issue.
In this region, therefore,
Democrats loyal to the nation
al party would be happy to
see the nomination go to
Rockefeller. For they be
lieve that in the South he
would be weakest of all the
current Republican possibili
ties simply as the one Repub
lican whose philosophy is
thought least to resemble that
of Goldwater. (This does not
mean, of course, that Rocke
feller's probable pulling pow
er outside the South is dis
counted).
As to President Kennedy's
weakness in this area, these
are seen in about this order:
1. Cuba. 2. "Too many Ken
nedys." 3. An impression that
the President is "anti busi
ness."
SOME presumably more so
ohlsticatd eastern Demo
cratic politicians have been
willing to tarry with the no
tion that the President's
brother. Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, himself
has presidential ambitions for
1968. But the politicos down
this way don t buy such an
idea for an instant, nor did
they even before the Attorney
General s recent public dis
avowal of any such ambition,
They think it is the Presi
dent's opposition - not Robert
Kennedy's - which is foster
ing such speculation simply
to increase the volume of
existing sentiment about "too
many Kennedys. They there
fore are far from pleased to
see their Democratic brethren
in other areas give house
room to a rumor which they
believe is not only absurd but
also dangerous to the Demo
cratic party generally.
"This must be wher
conferences Ji
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Pakistan has dropped its
demands for a plebiscite and
is willing to explore alter
natives. India 's willing to
reopen a dispu'e she officially
had considered closed.
Militarily, India has found
she can be cut off from her
northeast areas unless she ib
tains a corridor from Paki
stan. Pakistan needs similar
access across India to link;
east and west Pakistan.
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Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises. Inc.
I don't understand the)
great differences in musical
performance, said the wom
an across tha
dinner table.
"After all, the
notes are
plainly writ
ten out - why
doesn't every
capable per
former play
them that
w a y?" Many
people under
stand, in just the same way,
the nature of the performing
art. The music is a great deal
more than the notes; and even
the composer's precise instruc
tions leave a wide area for
interpretation.
Schnabel used to say that
it wasn't the notes that were
most important - it was tha
silences between the notes
that set off the great pianists
from the merely able ones.
He himself was more faulty
in technique than many second-rate
pianists; but he un
derstood the heart of the mu
sic better than all.
When Eugene Ysaya first
played the Caesar Franck
sonata which was written
for and dedicated to him.
the composer was in the
audience. A friend turned
to Franck, saying, "This is
magnificent, but he doesn't
respect th tempo markings
which you have Indicated."
Franck nodded. "I know,"
he said, "but it's he who
is right."
This is th chief differ
ence, of course, between a
science and an art. If mu
sical notation were a sci
ence, it would be played
th same by everybody, just
as a thousand mathematici
ans working on th same
aquation would com out
with exactly th same an
swer. Even medicine, which w
like to think of as a sci
ence today, is as much an
art, if not mora so. Two
doctors with tha same train
ing, th same technical
skill, and having read th
seme textbooks, will treat
a patient with different de
grees of success - for it is
th art they individually
possess, not th science they
shire in common, that it
th decisive factor in rare,
elusive, or complex ail
ments. A musical composition that
is just put down on paper,
and is as yet unplayed, has
only a potential existence. As
Paul Valery said, "It is a
check drawn on the talent of
its ultimate performer."
Scores and simply conven
tional signs, abstractions that
do not exist until they are
vivified by the player who
may see further than the com
poser.
Sometimes the composition
must wait for its "ultimate
performer." Two of today's
most popular concerto favor
ites - Tschaikovsky's first
piano concerto and his violin
concerto - were declared "un
playable" by their original
dedicatees, who refused to
premiere them. They saw
only the notes; it was not
until years later that per
formers came along who saw
the music, silences and all.
they held disarmament
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