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History from tha files of The
Mail Tribun 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO .
March 17. 1953 (Tuesday)
Craterlan' theater book
first three-dimensional movie.
Jackson county non-high
school district board approves
budget of $261,180.
20 YEARS AGO
March 17. 1943 (Wednasdav)
Five city streets to be re
paired with $5,952 received
from city's share of gasoline
taxes.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
daphne is in bloom and smells
as sweet as a $2 cake of drug
store soap."
SO YEARS AGO
March 17, 1933 (Friday,
Mail Tribune editor. In
front page editorial, chal
lenges people of Jackson coun
ty to "support the law en
forcement officials; stand 100
per cent behind constituted
authority and the govern
ment under which we live"
following shooting of con
stable. .
Some 26,640 telephone calls
received in two hours by lo
cal exchange Mowing fatal
shooting; twelve operators
kept busy.
40 YEARS AGO
March 17, 1923 (Saturday)
Day is observed by holding
14 St. Patrick's dances in
various parts of county.
Balmy sunshine starts plow
ing in rural areas.
50 YEARS AGO
March 17, 1913 (Monday)
City police told to "get
busy and stamp out hoodlum
ism and street fighting among
the village smart-alecks."
Taxpayers remit $190,000
In 10 days.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ran correct h luperlor;
aaven or eight Is cellent! five oi
ii Is good.
1, The number of points on
4in anilpra nf a deer Is. or Is
not, a reliable indication of
his age?
1 Wa the 1!. S. Constltu
tlon signed In New York,
Philadelphia, or Washington,
DC?
3. The part of a sentence
u,rtirh makea an assertion
about .the subject Is called
what?
A WKnt la the International
radio distress signal for
ships?
5. An author's narrative of
his own life is called an
?
6. Name the three great dl'
visions of the Federal Gov
ernment set up by the Con'
stitution.
7. Who succeeded Gen
eorge C. Marshall as Chief of
Staff of the Army?
8. D.A.V.G Is the abbrcv
lated name of which veteran's
organization?
9. Would you find penguins
at the North Pole?
10. On wh8t day of the
week did the Japanese sneak
attack occur at Pearl Harbor?
Answers 1. It not. 2. Phil
delphia. 3. Predicate. 4. S.O.S
5. Autobiography. 6. Legis
lative, Executive and Judicial
7. en. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
3. Disabled American Vat
rant. 9. No. 10. Sunday.
Beauty and the Economy
The tourist industry, we are told repeatedly,
is Oregon's third largest after forest products
and agriculture.
We are exhorted to do all we can to bring
more tourists to the state, so they can leave their
lovely greenbacks here to bolster our economy.
TU, r vest ntfnnk- a "vflnotirn Vila rocniirno "
which do not deplete any of our physical re
sources, and the more that come, ana the longer
they stay, the more prosperous Oregon will be.
mere is mucn sense in mis argument..
But what is it that attracts outsiders to visit
Oregon?
IS IT our cities? No they are much like cities
elsewhere. Is it our theaters or nightlife or
museums? No superior ones can be found in
many other localities (with, of course, the excep
tion of our unique Oregon Shakespearean Fes
tival).
What is it then?
If. we are not ereatlv
Oregon's tourists are attracted here by the op
portunity for outdoor recreation whether it be
simply viewing magnificent scenery, water ski
ing, camping, picnicking, hiking, or beachcomb
ing. Few other states offer as varied a diet of out
door recreation potentialities. In this lies our at
traction.
117HILE, to Oregonians,
v tnnnsts is hirr. mnnev
participant it is all aesthetics.
The thrill of a big fish
fatigue after a long ride or hike through the
woods, the smell of a camptire, the beauty ot a
Crater Lake or a sweeping cliff on the coast, a
sunset over Mt. Hood or
reaches of sage country
marching rows of forested
green to pale purple all
intellectual ana emouunai
the individual can really
and then only for their
The kev to each of these is their naturalness.
The less they are touched by the hand of man,
the more attractive they are to the observer.
With few exceptions, man sullies whatever he
touches, and the more he touches, the more he
sullies.
TOURISTS in Oregon are not seeking, in the
main mgn.mgrlo rrnnrra TMipv nrf Rppkinir Tia-
tural beauty, as unspoiled
To the extent that we allow our rivers, our
streams, our air to become polluted and choked,
we are destroyintr the
recreationalist to seeK us
we erect billboards, flashing neon alleyways,
asphalt jungles, or automobile wrecking yards,
we are in iact repeinng
We cannot, of course,
1 i 1. . 1 "l
was wnen me wmie man
too late for that. But the time has long since
passed when we should call a halt to over-development,
over-commercialization, over-paving,
over-lighting.
WE HAVE no New York or San Francicso to
ntrnrf. tho mptrnnolUnn snnhistipate. What
we have is natural beauty for the lover of the
outdoors.
If itJs. craduallv or
destroyed, we have then effectively cut the basis
out from under our third lamest industry.
This aesthetics natural beauty becomes a
matter of dollars and cents importance to every
resident of the state. Anything which diminish
es it, diminishes the economic health of Oregon,
E.A.
Too Many Bugs
The nhrase. "sex offenders." has a nasty con
notation to it. It arouses passions, and an under
standable desire that our loved ones particu
larlv children be protected.
Curbincr "sexually
ostensibly, the nurnose of
1 ' 1 I e
unacr consideration oeiuie wie wieguu iegioi'
ture. The principal one is
In essence, it would
is "suspected of being "sexually dangerous may
be given a "hearing" in court, before a judge
and at least two psychiatrists, and if found to be
"sexually dangerous," can be committed to an
institution for treatment.
rESPITE the worthy
there arc some bujrs
First, it would be a fruitful field for mis
chievous or malicious individuals, who might
wish to harrass an unliked neighbor, and sign a
complaint acrainst him.
Second, there is no
peers only the say so of two qualified psychia
trists." How many psychiatrists, no matter how
well qualified, are competent to judge whether
a person is "sexually dangerous" or not, unless
some overt act has been committed?
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TTHIRD, there is no institution in Oregon equip-
ped to treat such "sexually dangerous" per
sons and, indeed, little or nothing is known
about what sort of treatment to give, or how ef
fective it might be.
Thus, mark you, a pei-son could be deprived
of his liberty simply on the suspicions of a few
persons, and without ever having committed any
crime whatsoever.
There are too many dangers in this bill, and
it is not based on known medical facts. It should
be killed. E.A.
mistaken, the bulk of
outdoor recreation for
- makino - business, to the
biting, the wholesome
Diamond Lake, the long
in the high desert, the
hills, lading from daiK
these are a matter for
sausiacuuri which umy
assess for their worth,
worth to him.
as possible.
incentive of the outdoor
out. To the extent mat
mm.
keen Oregon just as it
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nisi sei iuuu neie. us
rapidly, allowed to be
dancerous" persons is,
a package of bills now
il 1 !-1
House Bill 1129.
provide that anyone that
objective of the measure,
in it.
trial by a jury of one's
Mouse Bring
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Matter of Fact
(c) New YorJO!ejlrTlbunejndlcaJl
ADENAUER AS SALAN
Bonn It was just after
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, new
ly installed in power, had ap
peared before
the vast
crowd in the
Forum of Al
giers with
Gen. R a o u 1
Salan at 1 is
side. "I have
under stood
you," he said,
and the wait-
ajmp ing tnousanas
answered with a great roar of
delight.
In the soft Algerian even
ing, on the superb terrace of
the Hotel Saint-Georges high
above the troubled city, there
was a celebration-dinner of
young parachutist officers or
ganized by Ma, de Saint-Marc
now, like Gen. Salan, rot
ting in jail.
,The young men were elat
ed; and why not? Had they
not brought de Gaulle to
power on their shoulders,
with Gen. Satan's complicity?
Was not the triumph of de
Gaulle the sure, the absolute
and final guarantee of
France's undying commit
ment to their policy of "Al
geria Francaise '?
But this reporter, who had
known some of the parachut
ists on operations in Indo
China, ventured the opinion
that the commitment was not
quite so final. And he even
dared to suggest that Gen. de
Gaulle would be promoting
"Algerie Algerienne" before
very long.
e a
FOR a moment, there was'
greater danger in the air
than there had ever been dur
ing rough days in the Indo
Chinese war. The thought that
tc terrace was at least 20 feet
high became uncomfortably
vivid. But the young officers
flush of fury died suddenly
away, into shouts of incredu
lous laughter.
"Come now," the younger
officers said, "this great man
whom we alone have brought
to power will never betray
us!" And so there was another
round of toasts.
This anecdote from the for
gotten past is highly relevant
in Bonn today for two quite
simple reasons. On the one
hand, Chancellor Adenauer
and the Germans, by their
friendship and support, have
brought Gen. de Gaulle to his
present position of command
ing power in Europe, much as
Salan and the paratroopers
brought him to power in
France. On the other hand,
Gen. de Gaulle plainly in
tends to deal with the Ger
mans and with Adenauer
much as he dealt with the
paratroopers and Salan. '
GEN. de Gaulle has largely
concealed this fact so far,
by his great charm, by his
peculiar gradcur, and by Uic
knack of mystery which he so
supremely possesses. Yet the
fact is undeniably there, in
the very center of the Euro
pean and German political
landscape.
To prove that It Is a fact,
one need only list the major
things Gen. de Gaulle wishes
to do and is trying to do,
which are directly contrary
to German vital Interests.
To begin with, de Gaulle is
bitterly hostile to the Amer
ican presence in Europe, lie
openly hnpes to secure an
eventual American retreat to
the U o , and he may be plan
ning to force a quite early
withdrawal of American
troops by pressing on the sen
sitive button of the balance
of payments. Yet the Germans
regard the American military
presence as their main de
fense. To continue, Gen. de Gaulle
is determined to impose on
the European Common Mar
ket an inward-looking, re
strictive and protective line
of economic and agricultural
development. This is all very
well for France, which does
two-thirds of its export busi
ness with the Common Mar
ket countries and the nations
of Uit franc-zone.
k
Forth Mountain
mm
By Joseph Alsop
BUT a protective, inward
looking Europe will be
fatal for the Germans. They
live by trade far more than
the French do, and they also
do two-thirds of their export
business with the U. S. and
other nations outside the
Common Market. To survive
they must export, and to ex
port, the Germans must ac
cept imports.
Finally, there is the matter
of the famous French "force
de frappe," with which Gen.
de Gaulle apparently hopes to
defend Europe after he has
forced the withdrawal of the
American troops.
The Germans are unan
imously convinced that as a
defense of Europe de Gaulle's
"force de frappe" will have
the approximate value of an
umbrella lacking not just its
covering, but also its spokes.
Furthermore, there is the
longer range question, wheth
er it will really suit the Ger
mans and the other Europeans
to have France the sole inde
pendent nuclear power in
Europe, if and when the U. S.
ever withdraws.
a e
SUCH are the main conflicts
between Gen. de Gaulle's
obvious intentions and Ger
man wishes and interests. The
conflicts were not much
weighed in Bonn in the first
genial glow of Franco-German
reconciliation. At first,
it was not well received here,
either, when the able State
Secretary of the Foreign Of
fice, Dr. Karl Carstens, went
to Washington and was rather
insistently reminded that a
forced withdrawal of Amer
ican troops and the imposi
tion of an inward-looking eco
nomic policy on Europe might
not be exactly helpful to Ger
many. Yet the conflicts above-listed
are now very much in the
mind of every important Ger
man official and political
leader, even including Gen.
de Gaulle's warmest German
admirer. Chancellor Aden
auer himself. In truth, It will
not be easy for de Gaulle to
deal with this whole nation as
he dealt with Salan and the
French parachutists.
Betting against de Gaulle
is always dangerous. But it is
highly premature to conclude
that de Gaulle will surely
bend Europe to his will.
What of France, De
By ERIC SEVADEID
The governments of the
West, our own included, have
been gazing with wild sur
mise at the
limitless ex
panse of Gaul
lism since he
anno u n c c d
France's free
hold claim to
tho fiitiirA rtf
rWjjLTU in
I ' these two
sivereid months t h e
cries and criticism have con
centrated on his threat to
undo the Herculean labors of
15 years for European unity
and on the future dangers of
a Europe once again living
and acting from the national
istic instinct and nothing
more.
Save in private, almost no
one of public consequence has
tried to answer the question
of whether France has. or will
have, the capacity to provide
consistent and lasting leader
ship for a "Europe of Father
lands." It Is a seriously de
batable question. If the pres
ent French government can
entertain dreams of such an
elevated role, it is not only
because Charles de Gaulle has
a stronger will than any cur
rent European statesman, but
because there Is "a role wan
dering aimlessly about in
search t. a hero to play it"
to quote Gamal Abdel Nasser
from another context. Nasser,
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(el 1863. The
WHAT ABOUT IT?
The first report on man
power, which the President
has just transmitted to Con
gress, raises a
question
about u n e in
payment to
which there
is no obvious
answer. Why
is it that for
five consecu
tive years
since 1957
both under
Llppmann
Eisenhower and under Kenne-
dy-the average rate of unem
ployment, 5.5 per cent, has
been so much higher than it
was in the years immediately
after the war, when the aver
age rate was less than 4 per
cent?
Moreover, in the past 10
years, there has been three
business recessions; and after
each recovery, the rate of un
employment has been higher
than after the preceding re
covery. These facts indicate, as the
Labor Department study ac
companying the President's
report puts it, that in recent
years the American economy
has been moving away from
full employment rather than
toward it.
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IT WAS by studying this
gloomy situation that the
administration came to the
conclusion that corporate and
individual income taxes arc
so high that they are depress
ing consumer demand and
spending for capital invest
ment. Though I believe whol
ly that this is a sound conclu
sion, I am moved to ask
whether the administration
remedy for economic stagna
tion is adequate.
What moves me to ask this
question is a reading of two
lectures by the managing di
rector of the International
Monetary Fund, Mr. Per Ja
cobsson, one delivered at New
York University and the other
at the American Bankers As
sociation meeting in Washing
ton. In reading these lectures,
we must begin by remember
ing that Mr. Jacobsson is a
very distinguished Swedish
economist, whose ideas de
scend from the same original
source as those of John May
nard Keynes. Mr. Jacobsson,
therefore, is in favor of the
prescription, which comes
from Keynes, that In order to
overcome the sluggishness of
an economy it is necessary to
expand the demand for goods
and services.
a
lyHERE Mr. Jacobsson dif-
fers from the administra
tion program is not about the
tax cut and the budgetary
deficit. He differs about wage
policy. In substance, he says
that, while expanding demand
can stimulate growth, it will
not cure unemployment un
less it is accompanied by a
freezing of production costs
and particularly wage rates.
If I read him correctly, he
says that it is quite possible
to stimulate the growth of the
economy without making
much of an impression on un
employment. It is very inter
esting and quite significant
that Mr. Jacobsson cites as his
authority none other than
John Maynard Keynes him
self. Keynes, he says, thought
that, while it is necessary that
"demand should be increas
ed," he was no less insistent
that "in time of marked un
employment, money wages
however, in what may have
been a fitful gust of modesty,
added that he did not mean
the role of leadership but of
"Interaction and experimenta
tion." De Gaulle means lead
ership. ,
The role is there by default.
Britain chose not to seize the
leadership of Europe at the
close of the war when she
alone wore the hero's mantle,
though whether she had the
strength to do it at that time
is another debatable question.
Italy has renounced any role
of power whatsoever and, in
deed, remains uncomfortable
as a spear carrier in the
wings. Germany is not only
amputated, but still on parole,
obliged to report her behavior
to the constituted authorities
at intervals.
There is only France. It is
a France blessed by some in
dividual leaders and thinkers
of brilliance, a France finally
cleared of an unmanageable
and unmanaged empire, a
France with the beginnings of
modern military power, with
a modernized, efficient indus
try, but, underneath all this
plaster, a France that may
still suffer hemorrhage at any
moment from social wounds
unhealed since World War I
and possibly since the French
Revolution.
One generalizes about a
whole people, especially a peo
ple as gifted as the French,
at his own risk, but it seems
to me from consider able
Lippminn
Washington Port
should be kept stable for un
employment to be reduced."
As a matter of fact. Lord
Keynes went further than
that. In his celebrated book,
"The General Theory of Em
ployment," Keynes declared
that in a given organization,
equipment and technology,
real wages and output are
uniquely correlated so that
"in general, an increase in
employment can only occur to
the accompaniment of a de
cline in the rate of real
wages." This decline in real
wages would happen if money
wages are frozen (while busi
ness is slack) while prices rise
during the period of recovery
from the recession.
TtfR. JACOBSSON'S view,
and even more that of
Lord Keynes, differs from
that of the administration in
this respect. The administra
tion has been trying, and with
considerable success, to keep
wage increases from exceed
ing the rise in the productiv
ity of labor. Mr. Jacobsson's
view is that this policy will
not lead to the same reduction
in unemployment as would be
achieved if, during the expan
sion of demand, money wage
rates were kept consistent or
rising more slowly than pro
ductivity. Mr. Jacobsson argues that
this unpopular remedy for un
employment is necessary be
cause, in the past few years,
we have been in a "new situa
tion." The post-war inflation
has worked itself off; since
1959, wholesale prices have
Been practically stable, and
the cost of living has not risen
much.
During the inflationary
years, individual firms could
grant wage increases because
they could raise prices with
out a decline in their sales
But with inflation ended, most
firms cannot raise prices with
out losing sales and therefore
reducing their profit margins
In this kind of situation, Mr.
Jacobsson believes, it is not
possible to cure unemploy
ment merely by cutting taxes
and expanding demand. It is
necessary, also to stabilize la
bor costs.
VfEEDLESS to say, this Is an
A ' unpopular remedy. As ev
idence of it there is Governor
Rockefeller's recent state-
ment about economic growth.
He too wants to expand de
mand by cutting taxes. But he
is discreetly silent about wage
policy.
An analysis of the figures
shows why the country is
more likely to put up with
the existing unemployment
than to brace itself to the
disagreeable remedy which
Keynes and Jacobsson recom
mend. Who are the unemploy
ed? In the main they are the
politically feeble. They are
young people many of them
without votes. They are the
older workers. They are Ne
groes. They are workers in de
clining and unstable indus
tries and in the depressed
areas. They are in general un
skilled workers. There are
some 4 million of them not
counting another 2.5 million
who are partially employed.
All of them together are
not a politically formidable
group; and as long as they are
taken care of neither party is
likely to take on the kind of
opposition which the Jacobs-son-Kcynes
formula would
arouse.
While the evidence of past
Gaulle, and Glory?
French residence that there
exists in France a deep seated
social disorder. It was shock
ingly revealed at the time of
the Dreyfus case, again in the
squalid defeat of 1940, again
in the incredibly messy pan
orama of Algeria, with
Frenchman against French
man; and the organized plots
to kill De Gaulle still suggest
implacable hatreds between
groups and classes.
Can this poisoning of the
blood be cured in the ten
years De Gaulle reportedly
allots himself? One is entitled
to wonder, and to wonder if
the nation which has osccllat
cd so vary long between po
litical authoritarianism and
semi-anarchy, which has nev
er achieved internal peace,
can preside over the external
peace of Europe.
It has always seemed to me
that France is not much more
of a true community of men
with a common sense of iden
tity and general purpose than
is, say, greater New York
a human melange which, I
suspect, would come apart at
the seams under heavy shock,
as France has come apart in
the past.
Dc Gaulle has said that
he cannot conceive of a
France without glory. I had
thought he meant that such a
France would not be HIS kind
of France. But perhaps he
meant something very differ
ent that unless France ridts
the crest in "grandeum," it
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THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IF YOU
HADN'T READ THEM HERE
Actor Peter Lawford'i wife hat a brothar in politics
... An early day tattler doing tha f irtt four minute mil
wat prevented from doing it by a bear doing a three
minute mile . . . William Tell't ton died at th age of 87
from head injuriet after falling over an apple crate . . .
More than half the people in tha world have to go to bad
at night without a turkey tandwich . . . Poptidet ar
served on toatted bunt in Alaska . . . General La coined
a tort of a phrase when he turrended to General Grant
laying, "You haven't jutt been whittling in Dixie, Grant
baby". . , .. Dan Beard, founder of th Boy Scoutt, uted
to walk around in hit ttalking faet . . . Termites har
been known to attack wood when thy couldn't find
anything better to eat . . . Thit newspaper hasn't won
Pulitser Prise for at least 29 years . . . Th ancient Ro
mans got pretty tick of all-number dialing and who
wouldn't with numbers like VII VII II VI I IV I, Area
Code V O III . . . All words tound peculiar when spelled
without an a, , i, or u . . . George Wathington received
a battlefield promotion from Pfc. to general.
WHAT IN THE WORLD DO THEY MEAN BY THAT?
DEPARTMENT
In the March 16-22 issue of TV Guide on the star of th
Dr. Kildaire series:
"Richard Chamberlain's sole claim to fame is that h
is famous."
JUNGLE GOURMET NOTE
"What ar we having for dinner tonight?" Inquired
the cannibal chief, horn from a hard day at th office,
"Baked beings," replied hit wife.
LEGISLATIVE REPORT
We treasure a note from one of our legislators in response
to our letter suggesting some action on a pending bill:
"I am pleased to see that your comprehensive analysi
of this problem is not prejudiced by knowledge of th
subject."
V5
IF DEPARTMENT
If the expression "There are more ways than on to
tkin a cat" it true, why is it that most of ut don't even
know th one way?
If dog foodt ar now mad with polyunsaturates, why
it ii that torn dogt ar still worrying themselves tick
about their health?
If thit it a free country, why do we ttill have to pay
for everything?
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR
Klamath Falls is the duck capitol of the world, having
more ducks per capita than one can conveniently shake a
lake at. It has been said (not by us) that they had to widen
their main street to paint the white line down the center.
It is famous for yams, lambs and hams and as a sort of a back
door to Crater Lake in Jackson County.
ABOUT THE IRISH
Only a third at large in area. Ireland hat a million
more people than Oregon. It exportt linen, New York copi
and certain important ingredients of Irish coffee. Before
the great potato famine of 1846-48, th population reached
8't million. Hunger drove millions to emigrate to Amer
ica where they war welcomed at good cititent, St. Pat
rick's Day (celebrating th day that St. Patrick chased
the Blarney stone out of Ireland) it observed here by
people from County Donegal, County Mayo and th
County Court.
recoveries does not at first
glance seem to confirm Mr.
Jacobsson's theory could it be
that he has a point? I should
like to see a qualified spokes
man of the administration ar
gue the issue which without
in the least pretending any
expertness of my own I have
ventured to raise. Is it possi
ble to reduce unemployment
substantially by the tax bill
alone?
comes apart; that it lacks the
social cohesion to endure ad
versity or mediocrity, which
Britain, for example, can en
dure and yet remain Britain,
a homogeneous people.
A few great men of gener
ous vision like Jean Monnet
excepted, most Frenchmen,
from peasant to Paris intellec
tual, are spiritual isolation
ists; they arc driven by cen
tripetal, not centrifugal, cm
tional forces, many of them
to the point of undisguised
contempt for the American
"do-good" psychology and tra
dition, Rightly or wrongly,
any number of visitors to
France share the impression
that they distrust and dislike
foreigners because they dis
trust and dislike one another.
For the most part, they seem
profoundly disinterested in
other lands and peoples.
That is their privilege; and
this is not to say that our own
quite different faults work
less hardship on others. It is
to say that a people so con
stituted are not nature's choice
for the sustained leadership
of a common alliance. It is to
say that a man who believes
power is everything In diplo
macy has a long way yet to
go before he can convince
others that the political pow
er of France rests on social
foundations dependable in all
weather and built to last.
(Distributed 1963. by Th Hall
Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
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Communications
Conscience It Tender
To the Editor: Curiosity hat
been said to kill a cat, but
the nature of human being
have this merciful lesson for
himself to learn.
Each person in his life sDan
has enough sins, enough troub
les of his own private fail
ings and evils, to entertain
himself for a double lifetime.
So the curiosity of another
person's affairs could only
strive from envy or an evil
mind.
The evils, worries, miser
ies of a fellow person are real
ly his own private inherit
ance. Yet there are busybod
ics inquisitive enough of an
other person, to seek out hii
morals and virtues, to do in
justice to a soul who has sup
posedly never known to sin.
Maybe by digging deep
enough they may find hit
grandma was an illegitimat
baby.
But if there's anything bf
hind a locked door or a bar
red window, there will b
sure a nose poked at the key
hole or thru the bars. They
would train their eyes to see
if there be anything that
would blush if the lights were
turned on or to sec anything
of shameful manners which
is not an inkling of their busi
ness but the owners.
Nothing pleases a busybody
more than to be fed with tales
of tragedies, or illnatured se
crets. Tell a busybody of saints
and royal families and its out
of line to their interest.
There is nothing meaner un
der the sun than for one busy,
body to gather tales in anoth
er busybody's territory. This
is inescapable aa it alwava
reflects in attitude and convic
tion. A Busybody s conscience
is tender and frequently tor
mented. E. Dykes
Gregory rd..
Central Point, Ort.
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