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History from tha files of The
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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 13. 1M3 (Friday)
Rumors current In Medford
that First National Bank of
Portland has purchased right-of-way
area east of the South
ern Pacific railroad tracks in
the downtown area for new
building.
Medford Police Lt. Charles
Champlin will be one of two
Oregon delegates attending
the 51st biannual Federal
Bureau of Investigation na
tional academy at Washing
ton, D.C.
20 YEARS AGO
March 13. 153 (Saturday)
Twelfth woman from coun
tv ioins the armed services.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge.. Pot" column: "A
number of the Older Girls
with gardens report young
onions are up an Inch, and
dread the day they will eat
them, and have callers."
30 YEARS AGO
March 13. 1933 (Monday)
Mail Tribune banner head
line announces "Beer Coming
Within Few Days;" Item from
Washington, D.C, expresses
the opinion the senate would
support the 3.2 per cent beer
measure.
Oregon state police make
19th arrest in ballot theft
case, 1
40 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1923 (TuMday)
Eleven feet of snow covers
ground at Crater lake.
Second nightriding trial
gets under way in Jackson
ville; trouble started, evi
dence showed, when the vic
tim was accused of "stealing
the widow's chickens."
SO YEARS AGO
March 13. 1913 (Thursday)
Moral wave hits city and
40 vagrants told to make
themselves scarce.
Work to start at once nn
Valley Intcrurban line.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ran samel It superior;
seven or eliht Is excellent! five i
sli Is good.
1. Was Solomon's throne
made of gold, Ivory, or silver?
2. Is Louisville or Lexing.
ton the capital of Kentucky?
S. Name the Indian princess
who married John Rolfe.
4. Name the five senses.
5. Is asphalt Insoluble in
water, or In gasoline?
6. Rabbits belong to the
rodent family; true or false?
7. Genuine Roquefort cheese
Is made principally from the
milk of cows, ewes, or goats?
8. Which U.S. President is
sued the emancipation procla
matlon?
9. Name the author of the
novel, "Oliver Twist.
10. Name the strings of a
violin.
Answersi 1. Ivory. 2. Nel
ther, Frankfort Is. 3. Pocahon
tas, 4. Sight, smell, hearing,
taste, touch. S. Water. 8. True
7. Ewes. 8. Abraham Lincoln.
9. Charles Dickens. 10. E. A
D.C.
EXPANDING CADETS
Old Saybrook, Conn.-iUPr-The
Junior Naval Cadets of
America Tuesday appealed for
old Navy uniforms for the
rrew of lis ship, the Fulton.
The uniforms were needed
"Io help meet the needs of
the- expanding ship and rapid
ly expanding cadets," it Mid.
VjJAMOCIATION
Billboard
A special committee
of the Medford city council and planning com
mission is now considering what, if anything, to
do about regulating billboards along the free
way through the city of Medford.
A "stop-gap" ordinance has been passed by
the council, halting new signs adjacent to the
freeway pending enactment of permanent con
trols, but at least 11 signs win go up (.unless
the council soon acts retroactively) because per
mits were obtained before the ordinance was
passed some of them only hours before.
What are other cities doing about this? We
wrote to Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland to ask,
and in reply received a letter from the planning
director of the Portland City Planning Commis
sion, Lloyd T. Keefe.
JJR. KEEFE's letter said, in part:
- "Through recommendation of the City Planning
' 'Commission and enactment by the City Council, all
existing freeways and those under construction, and
all approaches to bridges crossing the Willamette
River In the City of Portland, are within 'S' (Sign
Control) zones. The 'S' zone is a zone superimposed
over the existing zoning pattern to allow more effec
tive regulation of outdoor advertising signs and busi
ness Identification signs in areas where the Planning
Commission and the City Council feel that such con
trols are necessary for the public welfare. An 'S' zone
is an area normally measuring 300 feet on each side
of the center line of the roadway; however, the area
is wider In those areas containing ramps providing
ingress to and egress from freeways.
"All outdoor advertising sign locations proposed in
Commercial (C) and Manufacturing (M) zones, whether
or not 'S' zones are superimposed, must be approved
by the Variance Committee of the City Planning
Commission. Since the adoption in 1959 of the pres
ent Planning and Zoning Code, five outdoor advertis
ing signs have been approved by the Committee within
'S' zones superimposed on C and M zones. Their ap
proval was based on the fact that no part of the signs
or structures could be seen from the freeways, and that
the locations of the signs would not adversely affect
. traffic safety . . ,"
THERE are certain exceptions provided for
irlontifinatinn anrl nfVir t.vnpq nf RIOTIS. hilt
they do not destroy the intent nor the effective
ness of the ordinance.
Also, there is provision for the termination
of existing signs, giving a
removal.
In addition to the exemptions provided in the
ordinance, the Variance
erection of signs if it first
". . . that tne location or. sucn sign is not aemmeniai -to
the public welfare, Is not contrary to other provi
sions of this code relating to the zone applicable to
the location, will not obstruct a view of scenic interest,
will not impede the rapid and free flow of traffic
upon a bridge or bridge approach or specially desig
nated throughway or highway. Is not primarily de
signed to be visible from a bridge or bridge approach
or specially designated throughway or highway . . ."
JT IS to be hoped the Medford City Council and
Planning -Commission will take note of this
ordinance, along witn:
1. The traffic hazard
larly on an elevated freeway up to tnree times
that of non-signed areas, according to some au
thorities. : ,
2. Their detrimental effect on the view of the
city which tourists and other passers-by receive.
3. The fact that public tax money has paid
for the freeway, and if billboards are erected,
they get, in effect, a .captive audience at public
expense.
It may be too late to eliminate an DUiDoaras
along the freeway in town, but it is not too late
to prevent the worst sort of billboard alley from
springing up. E. A.
Ridiculous
The supreme court of the state of Missouri,
in a flash of sanity, has ruled that state's Sunday
closing law is so "vague, indefinite and incapa
ble of rational enforcement," that it has thrown
it out.
The law had been on the state's law books
for 138 years. It prohibited the sale of any com
modities except "drugs, medicines, provisions,
and other articles of immediate necessity.
A concessionaire at the St. Louis Union sta
tion got into trouble with the law when he con
tended that such items
blades, underwear, socks, and other items, are
of immediate necessity to travelers.
'J'HE court, in examining the case, said:
"This Is but typical of the vexing state of uncer
tainty and widespread contusion which for many years
attended operations under, and enforcement of, these
sections ...
. "The statute is now held void."
Well and good.
This is just another
Legislature should turn thumbs down on the pro
posed Sunday closing law for Oregon. It is dis
criminatory, it is, intentional or not, religious leg
islation, it is confusing, and it is, in short, ridicu
lous. E. A.
Craterian
When the Craterian theater reopens this Fri
day, theater patrons are going to find it will com
pare with any small theater, anywhere, in taste
comfort and decor.
The seat rows are further apart, the scats are
foam-padded, the thick carpets are soft and lux
urious, and the severely modern interior is soft
ened by a color scheme of soft green and orange
brown. Manager Bob Corbin is proud of the job, and
sees it as another vote of confidence in the down
town core area. W are inclined to agree. Ej A.
Ordinance
composed of members
10-year period for their
committee may permit
finds.:
billboards pose, particu
as tooth paste, razor
reason why the Oregon
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contrary is often the case.
Indians' Shasta
To the Editor: My family so
enjoyed your recent article
concerning Mystical Mount
Shasta-
Perhaps readers would be
interested in the following
legend of the Modoc, Kla
math, Shasta, and Scott Val
ley tribes concerning this
mountain. It is from J. Mil
ler's "True Bear' Stories,"
(1900).
"The Great Spirit (I-sce)
made Mt. Shasta first of all,
pushing down snow and ice
through a hole He ground In
the sky with a grinding stone,
then He stepped out of the
sky to the mountain top, and
by placing His finger here
and there. He made tne trees
and brush to grow, and made
the rivers, and stones. From
the small of of His staff He
made fish, and after that He
made the beasts from the re
mainder of His staff, making
the great grizzly bear of the
very big end of the staff, and
made him master over all the
others, so great, in fact, that
he feared him Himself, and
would have to go up on top
of Mt. Shasta, out of the for.
est to sleep at night lest the
grizzly should assail Him in
the night. Afterwards, I-see,
the Great Spirit, wishing to
remain on earth and make the
seas and more lands, convert
ed Mt. Shasta, by a great
deal of labor. Into a wigwam,
and builded a fire in the cen
ter of it. Then His family
came down to live with Him
and they have lived there ever
since.
"Late one spring a severe
windstorm blew about Mt.
Shasta, and I-see sent His
youngest and fairest daughter
to the hole on top, that she
should speak to the wind and
tell it to be more gentle, lie
bade her do this swiftly, and
not stick her head out lest the
wind catch in her long hair
and blow her away. The child
hurried to the top and obeyed.
but as she had never seen the
ocean where the stormwlnds
made their home, she put her
head out to look that way and
lo, the wind caught in her
hair and blew her from the
hole and she slid on the hard
ice down to the dark belt of
firs below.
The grizzly bears posses
sed all the land at that time,
but then they were not all
bear; they walked on two feet
and warred with clubs as men
do now.
"A family of grizzlies lived
close by, and the father found
the daughter of I-sce. red
skinned as Shasta fire. He
took her home and she grew
up with his family.
"And so the eldest bear-son
married the little red crea
ture, daughter of 1-see, and
they were very happy, and
many children were born to
them, but being part of the
Great Spirit and part of the
grizzly, the children did not
look much like either parent
but partook of the mother's
red skin and the father's dark
hair; thus the red men were
created and these children
were the first Indians.
"All the other grizzlies
were very proud and kind,
and they met together and
builded for the little red prln
cess a wigwam clo.se to her
father's, and this Is what is
now called 'Little Mount
Shasta' . . . (Muir's peak; the
cinder cone).
Mrs. V. Card
v Jacksonville, Ore.
Annexation Law
To the Editor: H.B. 1263 is
a proposed slate law which
will allow all cities in Oregon
to annex areas by council ac
tion, without a vote of the city
citizens or the people In the
areas to be annexed.
This type of legislation has
been sweeping across the
United States in the past (ew
years.
In my opinions it reflects
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
condition of immortality
trual"
the thinking and action of
technicians, planners, city
managers and some officials
who are either ignorant of, or
impatient with, our represen
tative form of democracy and
our freedom of choice.
It is also the result of
apathy and the reluctance of
the general public to do any
thing about it until at such
time it affects them personal
ly, then lt is too late. -
This type of legislation af
fects only a small group of
people at any one time, or by
the time it affects the larger
group, the city, they are in a
bad taxation situation.
The details of this bill, H.B.
1263, and it's full implica
tions, make for a long expla
nation. If enough people are
interested, and you should be,
perhaps a public meeting can
be arranged and the matter
discussed by the proponents
and others.
William Doernbach
143 Mace rd.
Medford.
A Law To Ignore
To the Editor: In regard to
this Sunday closing law:
It is just another law that
will be ignored, as the one
they had in Oregon, about
1915 or 1916 or thereabouts.
I lived in a country neigh
borhood and the people there
beat a trail from the church
to the back door of our neigh
borhood store, most every
Sunday after church.
When the law was repealed,
the first Sunday after repeal
our storekeeper locked up the
store and went fishing.
I have read a lot of letters
to the Editor on which day to
keep for the Sabbath.
If the Sabbath is so Import
ant why was it that it wasn't
mentioned in the sermon on
the Mount, while murder and
adultery were?
I have my own theory about
this, but it would take too
much space to tell it.
W. R. White,
Box 209,
White City, Ore.
Thanks
To the Editor: To the volun
teer - Fire Department of
Shady Cove:
We express our sincerest
thinks, and to all the people
standing by to help.
Thank you, too, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Failing, for standing
by all evening. And thank
you,
tors,
too, the telephone opera-
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Wcrrlein,
Route 1, Box SS4,
Eagle Point, Ore.
Any Comments?
To the Editor: After listen
ing to the groans emanating
from Salem, I was under the
impression our loyal represen
tatives were laboring mightily
to cut expenses.
The Voter's Pamphlet Bill
seemed one easy way to do
this.
Of course, the money saved
would only build two or
three badly needed class
rooms. Why, it might even
pay the salaries of some of
our most partisan legislators.
Any comments, you well
informed, happy, tax-paying
voters?
R. K. Hammona,
Star Route. Box 540,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Where Is the Truth?
To the Editor: I'm standing
solidly behind Franc1! Koch
and Dan Smoot In 'hi; Preji-
dent Kennedy-Romulo Bctan-
court hassle. Yo 2 28 edi
torial in defense of Betaa
court is ridiculous, consider
ing the amount of document
ed evidence against him
There is enough unimpeach
able evidence in any one ol
five different entries into our
Congrlonal Record on this
man to hang him, if bents a
Communist was a capital
crime in Venezuela. Jore
OREGON
Khrushchev, Target
Sets Out To Prove Communist Toughness
By K. C. THALER
United Press International
Lindon - IUPD - Premier Ni
kita Khrushchev, under
mounting fire from Red
Chinav apparently is out to
set his Marxist record
straight.
The Soviet leader's latest
strategy emerged in a series
of recent moves, all pointing
strongly to a calculated tight
ening of the Kremlin's line
over a wide field of Soviet
activity.
Whether in readiness for
some form of truce with Pe
king or for a public show
down with his ally, Khrush
chev is to all appearances
trying, to prove that he is a
tough Communist.
The most striking of moves
has been his surprise week end
attempt to softpedel his at
tacks on Stalin and his no
tice to tighten the reins in
the sphere of ideological co
existence in the arts.
The hardening of the So-
damning evidence is the fact
thai he appointed his old
time card-packing Co munist
comrades to key positions in
government, including such
"lovelies as Roul Leoni, Ri-
cardo Montilla and Carlos
D'ascoli.
You wonder, in ycur edi
torial, diatribe against the
right wing, what kind of a
mind is capable of believing
our President is a liar and
a coddler of Communists.
Why, E. A., one of his own
White House spokesmen, As
sistant Secretary of Defense
Arthur Sylvester, stated pub
licly the federal government
"has the inherent right to lie"
and that "m naging" and
"manipulating" the news was
a practice during the Cuba
crisis. Why wouldn t we be
lieve it? As for coddling Com
munists, every responsible
citizen in America is aware
that the law-of-the-land re
quiring Communists to regis
ter, as, such, has not been
enforced.
We are in the deadliest war
of all history, with a merci
less, implacable enemy who
intends to destroy every ves
tige of our Christian civiliza
tion. Unbelievably alien and
un-American things are hap
pening in our government.
Yet neither Mr. Koch nor Mr.
Smoot said that they believed
President Kennedy was a
traitor, as you unethically in
ferred. However, they may
and probably DO believe, as
most of the right wing, that
Kennedy is a helpless "cap
tive" of our "invisible gov
ernment." What else could explain
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk today about cat
tle and cattlemen. The occa
sion is the Oregon Angus As
sociation's High Country An
gus Sale held at the Klamath
County Fair Grounds the oth
er day and the Rotary Club's
luncheon for the visiting cat
tlemen. The luncheon was a fasci
nating affair. It brought to
gether not only members of
the -Angus Association but
cattlemen specializing in oth
er breeds from all over the
Klamath Basin.
The striking part of It ' : s
that here was a group of men
who had come together to
talk not about the PROB
LEMS of their industry but
about their industry's PROG
RESS. There was -. talk
about SURPLUSES and what
to do with them. I) lead, the
talk was all about how to
produce more and better beef
so that people may have more
and better meat to eat.
In these days, that is most
unusual.
fkUESTION:
Why are there no beef
surpluses to worry about?
There could be beef sur
pluses. Since 1930. the num
ber of cattle in the United
States has increased by 55 per
cent. In this same period, the
number of people has lncrt-s-ed
by only 47 per cent.
So -
In a period when the cattle
total has been increasing fast
er than the population total
and when other staple oocls
have been piling up and piling
up until the surpluses are
bursting the wall- of ihc
warehouses all over the coun
try, why is there no surplus
of beef?
'VUE answer. I think, is this:
The cattlemen have brrn
I wise enough to keep th nose
of the government camel out
from under the rattle tent.
That must be about the long
and the short of it. jt
viet line has become increas
ingly noticable over the past
few weeks. It showed clearly
at the current Geneva talks
for a nuclear test ban and
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
( 1963. The
CHEATING AND
ESPIONAGE
Senator Dodd has said that
there is one supreme ques
tion which the Senate must
ask about any
test ban trea
ty; does it
provide rea
sonable pro
tection against
any cheating
by the Sovi
ets?" This is
an important
question, and
Uppmaan the hearings
now being held before the
Joint Atomic Energy Commit
tee are focused on it.
But it is not the supreme
question.
The supreme question is
whether the U. S. A. and the
U. S. S. R. can agree not to do
any more testing in the hope
of changing the existing bal
ance of power in nuclear wea
pons. This would mean, it is
agreed on both sides, an ac
ceptance of the fact that while
both sides are now capable of
inflicting devastating damage,
the American arsenal is big
ger and more versatile than
the Soviet's. The purpose of
the treaty would be to slow
the refinement of the nuclear
the Bay of Pigs fiasco-or Ken
nedy's "Declaration of Inter
dependence" in Independence
Hall last 4th of July - or
such acts as the sale, on his
order, and for 10 cents on the
dollar, our finest jet bomb
ers to Communist Yugoslavia,
while training Red Yugoslav
fliers at our Army Air Force
bases to fly them? What else
can explain his approval of
the disarmament treaty?
Think of it! Suppose General
George Washington had sold
American arms to the British
for a fraction of their cost.
during the Revolutionary
War! Suppose, after becom
ing President, he had set his
approval on a treaty that
would have totally disarmed
our young nation and put it
under compulsory jurisdic
tion of a World Court with
foreign troops stationed on
our soil to police us! Or sup
pose Washington had sponsor
ed the socialization of -11
Latin America with billions
of American tax dollars!
Are Frank Koch and Dan
Smoot therefore become your
enemies, because they tell you
the truth?
L. C. Powell,
316 S.E. Eighth St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
WHAT suggests another ques-
tion: WHY have the cattle
men been wise enough to
keep the nose of the govern
ment camel out from under
the cattle tent?
The only answer I can think
of is that they arc just THAT
KIND OF PEOPLE.
rpHIS answer was confirmed
at the Klamaih Rotary
club's cattlemen's luncheon by
Lyle Hoyt, sales manager of
the Oregon Angus Association
and managing editor of the
Western States Angus News,
when in a lively and interest
ing talk he gave this version
of the Cattlemen s Creed:
"I.
DO NOT choose to be
common man. It is my
right to be uncommon if
can. I seek OPPORTUNITY
not security.
"I do not wish to be a kept
citizen, humbled and dulled
by having the state look after
me. I want to take a calcu
lated risk to dream and to
build, to fail or succeed.
"I refuse lo barter Incen
tive for the dole. I prefer
the challenge of life to the
a u a r a n t ced existence; the
thrill of fulfillment to the
stale calm of Utopia. I will not
trade my independence for
beneficences nor my dignity
for a hand-out.
"I will never cower before
any master nor bend to any
threat. It is my heritage to
stand erect, proud and un
afraid: to think and act for
myself; to enjoy the benefits
of my creations and to face
the world boldly and say
THIS I HAVE DONE.
WHAT isn't, he said, the for
mI creed of the Oregon
Angus Association. So far .is
he knows, he added, It isn't
the FORMAL creed of any
cattleman's association. He
doesn't even know the a ithor
of It, he told his hearers But,
he added, it is the informal
creed of the rugged individu
alists who make up the catUe
business of the United ates.
of Red Chinese,
disarmament. On both issues
Russia has been tougher than
for some time past, with no
apparent desire to negotiate
at present. 1
The Kremlin also has been
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art, refraining from further
testing in the hope of achiev
ing an absolute superiority.
THE HOPE of achieving an
absolute superiority exists
among some scientists and
some military men in Doin
countries. It does not exist
by any means among all sci
entists or all military men. If
either country, could, for ex
ample, achieve a perfectly ei
fective anti missile missile,
it would thereby wipe out the
menace of the other side s
whole nuclear armament. Or
if either side could make a
bomb so powerful that it
could destroy the whole pow
er of the other side to retali
ate, it would have absolute
superiority.
Such hopes ol aosoiuie su
periority, which neither side
will avow publicly, explain
why the public surface argu
ment against the proposed
treaty is what it is-the Amer
icans talking about cheating
and the Russians talking
about espionage.
The truth is that the Kus-
sians do not really mean that
two or three on-stte inspec
tions are all right while siev
en or eight would be espion
age, which would undermine
the security of tne soviei
Union. What the Russians
mean is that if they offer few
er inspections than Mr. Ken
nedy thinks he can accept ana
still net the treaty raiuieci
they will have proved that
they want to stop testing, and
they will still be able to test,
Beside the ingrained Rus
sian reluctance to open their
country, there is the mucli
more matter of fact feeling
that, if they test, they may
achieve absolute superiority,
On our side, the truth is that
Senator Dodd and his mentor,
Dr. Teller, are not primarily
concerned with cheating. Dr.
Teller, at least. If I have read
his oublic statements correct
ly, is primarily concerned
with avoiding any treaty
which will slow down the de
velopment of nuclear wea
pons. The most vocal critics
at the moment in this country
may say they want a fool
proof treaty. What they real
ly want is not to stop testing.
POR MYSELF, I do not take
A the view that they are nec
essarily wrong. If they would
quit talking as if they had
some kind of superior patriot
ism, the perfectly arguable is
sue which is not fully re
solved could be discussed. I
think that the real issue
should be broughH up to the
surface and that we should
have a full debate on wheth
er, for the sake of peace and
of our own national interests,
it is better to slow down nu
clear development by banning
tests or to stimulate develop
ment by continuing the tests.
This is the real question
both in this country and in
the Soviet Union; Our fear of
cheating and their fear of
espionage are cover argu
ments used by men who in
their hearts believe that they
must find a way to continue
to test without outraging
world opinion.
For more on site Inspec
tions than the Soviet Union
has already offered will not
reveal much of anything
which this country does not
already know about the So
viet military establishment,
But those few extra inspec
tions might enable the Presi
dent to get a treaty ratified
and that is precisely what
those who want to go on test
ing in the Soviet Union do
not want to see. Nor is there
any serious dispute that, with
our present improved meth
ods of detection Including a
few on site inspections, the
chances of perfectly safe and
undetectable cheating on a
profitable scale are close to
zero.
THE strongest argument for
continuing to test is that
our nuclear scientists will lan
guish and disperse if they can
not put their theories to the
test of experiment. For it is
still not possible to make the
conclusive tests in laborator
ies. It is true, therefore, that
the proposed treaty is the
first formal attempt In mod
ern times to inhibit the
growth of scientific know
ledge.
The argument in favor of
such a treaty is that, as re
gards world peace, an agree
ment on so vital a matter
would be a breakthrough
which could open the way to
other agreements. And. as re
gards the American national
interest and the interest of
the Western Alliance, our se
curity will be enhanced if the
Soviet Union will accept the
existing balance of nuclear
forces.
dragging its feet on imple
menting its pledges for a
withdrawal from Cuba. It was
Khrushchev's withdrawal of
rockets, from Cuba which
drew the sharpest attacks
from Peking against the So
viet leader for his "adventur
ism and cowardice."
Tough talk has come froin
Khrushchev's military chiefs,
who have once again started
calling for a Soviet belt-tight
ening in the interest of a con
tinued strong Russian mili
tary posture.
Moscow has iurwermore
begun soft pedeling on tha
supply of jet MIG fighters for
India which tt had promised
earlier against Red Chinese
protests. Four MIG 21s have
been delivered, but latest re
ports suggest that the re
maining eight which have
been promised apparently
will not be supplied for an-
other 18 months.
Khrushchev further has re
vived the old demand for an
immediate settlement of tha
German problem. This appar
ently is a shift of priorities,
with disarmament coming
second after an East-West ar
rangement on Germany is
reached.
At the week end Moscow
released a Khrushchev
speech, which surprisingly
had some kind words to say
about Stalin whose image he
had sought to destroy. He
gave him the benefit of tha
doubt of being a good Com
munist after all and excused
his crimes with the explana
tion that the dictator had
been a "deeply sick person."
Strictly
Personal
- By Sydney J. Harris
(e- Field Enterprises, Inc.
ORIGINAL SIN"
"It seems so ob ious that
we're going to blow up the
world if we keep on this
way," said tha
man at lunch.
"I can't un
derstand why
the leaders of
powerful
states can't sit
down togeth
er and work
out a sensible
plan for sur-
Hsrri. vival of the
species." Speaking of the hu
man race's seeming inability
to "learn from living," as I
was yesterday, it strikes me
that such, a proposal is too
simple, too sane, too practi
cal, too realistic. It is not the
way things have ever been
done, by states or by indi
viduals. In one of his books written
after the First World War,
George Santayana made ihe
following bleak and trep tant
observation on the history ol
humanity:
"Each generation breaks
its egg-shell with tha same
haste and assurance as tha
last, pecks at tha same indi
gestible ptbblts, dreamt
tha same dreams, er others
just at absurd, and if it
heart anything of what for
mer men have learned by
experience, it corracit their
maxima by its first impres
sions, and rushes down any
untrodden path which it
finds alluring, to die in its
Own way, or become wis
too lata and to no purpose."
What tha theologians call
"original sin" may vary
well be the persistent and
fateful tendency to learn
nothing from tha past, to
repeat the same mistakes in
different ways, to commit
tha same eld errors undar
new names with improved
techniques and even mora
disastrous consequences.
"Tha only thing wa learn
from history," said Hegel,
"is that wt learn nothing
from history." Statesmen
today behave in exactly tha
same way as tha statesmen
who wrecked the civilised
world in the war between
Athens and Sparta 2,500
years ago. The same rival
ries, enmities, fears, pas
sions and superstitions are
loose in the world iod.y at
in the era of the Persians
and ihe Babylonians; and
what happened to them
does not deter us from pur
suing a similar course.
The world has always been
run by iu "practical" men -and
its practical men have
almost always turned out to
be tragically wr g.
For what the world has
always desperately needed has
been more idealism and less
practicality, more belief that
men CAN sit down together
and map their own survival,
and less reliance on treaties
and alliances ard arms and
strategics - which fall apart
at the first ar-sault of unrea
son. We are pecking at the
same indigestible pebble to
day - but this pebble at last,
is different: it contains its
own ultimate destroying
agent, and the end of all
dreams, absurd or otheruve.