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History from the file, of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 year. ago.
10 YEARS AOO
April I. 1S3 (Wednesday)
The city superintendent's
office was authorized to pre
pare cost estimates for a mini
mum survey of off street
parking facilities In Medford
at last night's council meet
ing. 20 YEARS AOO
April IM (Thursday)
Air Force MaJ. Glenn Jack
son returns to Medford on six
day leave from Washington,
D.C.
30 YEARS AOO
April a, 193J (Friday)
Walter Olmschcld lo be
sworn in as Jackson county
sheriff tomorrow.
Medford beer supply runs
out as supply unable to keep
up with demand on tne first
day after repeal 01 proiuoi
tion.
40 YEARS AGO
April I, 1(23 (Saturday)
Rich gold strike reported
from Josephine counly.
First smudging of season
predicted for Jackson county
orchards.
SO YEARS AGO
April S. 1(13 (Monday)
Two prominent Medford at
torneys tangle in circuit court
room in Jacksonville; "after u
sharp exchange of blows, the
men went to the mat and
rolled over on the floor, little
damage being inflicted by
cither contestant."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or Un correct li .upcrior;
Mvtn or eiqht it sctllcnt;
fx It food.
1. In what Psalm are these
words: "Thou prepares! a la
blc before me in the presence
ot mine enemies 7
2. In what famous novel is
Simon l.egrec a character'
3. Which two slates of the
union are each bounded by
eight other stales'.'
4. What Is the minimum age
specified in the Constitution
for eligibility to be a U.S.
Senator, and for a U.S. Rep
resentative'.' 5. In case of the death, res
ignation or inability lo act ot
both the President and Ihe
Vice President, who guccodl lu
the office of President'.'
6. Who said in what famous
document "A prince, whose
character is thus marked by
every act Which may define
B lyraiu, is uiuiv m in un
ruler of a free people"?
7. Recently what Evangelist
sat with President Kennedy
on the platform at what an
nual function?
8 On what continent is the
Brenner Pass?
9. Complete this quotation
from Wordsworth's poem:
"And then my heart with
pleasure fills, and dances with
lira
10. The city of Sanlu Do
mingo formerly Cludad Tru
jillo) is Ihe capital of what re
public? ....Anawem 1. Twtnty-third
psalm. 2. Uncle Tom i Cab
in." 3, Missouri and Ttnnei
sae. 4. Snator-30; Baprtian-UliTe-25.
i. Sptaktr ol lha
Houm of Rrpreianutttai. 6.
Thomas Jaffarion In Didara
tion of Indeptndance. 7. Billy
Graham al Iht Prtudtnt't
Prayer Breakfait. t. Europe,
t. "....daffodiU." 10. Domini
can Republic.
tSJJJ'A'MoeMTioN
NATIONAL fOITOIUl
1IAC6T,3N
MONDAY, APRIL , 1963
A Problem of Adolescence
The Jackson countv Democratic Central com
mittee, which seems to take an unusual delight
and relish in being a house divided, demonstrat
ed once again last week that many ot its mem
bers nlace personality over party welfare.
When the announcement was made at the
committee's meeting Tuesday night that Al Brad
ford had been appointed temporary Medford
nostmaster a move which had been anticipated
for at least two or three weeks the group sub
sequently voted 24 to 14 to send a letter to the
Oregon delegation in Washington expressing re
sentment that the committee's choice, County
Clerk Marvin Madden, had not been named.
The obvious target of the letter was Rep
Robert Duncan, whose office released the infor
mation that Bradford had been appointed.
A FACTION within the committee which had
supported Madden turned on a scapegoat and
shouted for the resignation ot uommiaee vnair
man Jean A. Mills, a lone-time Duncan man.
Mills apparently kept his head under the fire
and refused to resign, but it's clear the faction
will continue its attempts to get his scalp, one
way or the other.
By its peevish, sulky action, the faction (by
and large the same group which so strenuously
opposed the home rule charter last year) has
i . . t-i i .I- ah ila i i .
Diougnt, naming uisciuuii. iu we lciuuiiv
party as a whole ia Jackson county.
And by extension, they have also cast a sha
dow on the goon name ot tfraciiorci, a iauniui
party worker who probably has more genuine
friends and fewer real enemies than nearly any
other man in Medford.
What the btoud hoped to train with their pro
test letter is beyond the pale of logic. They can't
have imagined for a minute that the decision
would be reversed.
NOR could they originally, as practical men,
have assumed that their recommendation
would have anv other force than that of a sug
gestion, which those who
the appointment would teel tree to accept, or
reject as they saw fit.
One can onlv conclude that they, in their
anger and disappointment, hoped to bring public
embarrassment to Congressman Duncan.
But. clearly, rather the reverse has happen
ed. It is the Democratic
at least the majority of
should be, embarrassed.
And we re embarassed too. It is never a pleas
ant thing to see adults act like children. G.H.B.
Fixed Date
The date of Christendom's principal holy day
depends on phases of the moon. It can come as
early as March 22 or as late as April 25, and the
confusion is compounded by the fact that Eastern
Orthodox churches frequently celebrate Easter
on dates which do not coincide with the one on
which Western churches
Leading Christian churchmen now are ques
tioning anew the wisdom of leaving to astro
nomical observation the annual appointment 01
Easter. Roman Catholic fathers meeting at the
Ecumenical Council in Vatican City last Decem
ber suggested negotiations with non-Catholic
Christian churches to agree on a common, fixed
date for Easter.
"The Christian Century , a leading Protestant
periodical, had proposed earlier that the Roman
Catholic Church initiate a world conference of
Christian leaders to fix an annual date for cele
bration of the resurrection of Christ.
rVFFICULTIES in establishing a universal date
for Easter have existed ever since the church
first appointed Easter as
dred years alter Uinsts cruciiixion, western
churches generally celebrated Easter on Sunday
(the day of the week the resurrection had occur
red), and the Eastern churches observed it on
the 14th of Nlsan (first month of the Jewish
ecclesiastical calendar), regardless of the day
of the week noon which it fell.
In A.D. M25, Constantine convoked the his
toric (JOUnCll 01 tlie Uil'ISliail l IHUCIICS at IN K'Ca.
By that time, pilgrims were traveling bv the thou-
i . ,i ti i i .li. ,1,1 .. .i il, wuninua
.sands to the Holy Land to celebrate the i esiu i ee -
tion. So the Council decided that Easier should personally, that are IS .vcars
be fixed at a time when the pilgrims could be old, and don't look that Hqw
guided in safety bv the light of thg full moon.
Easter WAS Set on the t li st Sunday after the t li st j u,,., boys and thus they
union, o owinc t ie viM'na coliinoN..
BUt the time of the
conliiic to lonciuuie, ami opinions continued to
cliveriTt? as to what date
. .
RACK in 1923, the League of Nations called a
IJ , , r. n iV n w i
conference attend by Unman t atholic, ba.t -
ern Orthodox ami Anglican church delegates to
Still V the Kastcr (late COlltllSlon. A general desire
waf expressed that the
as the date tor Celebration OI llll'IStS bllth 18.
'l'li,, RtritUh P n-li-iMinnl ovimi ii:imj -in Knstcv
act in 1828 designating
. ,,v .,,..- ,,v
the second Saturday in
Ungent upon its acceptance internationally. N
desired acceptance has nol OCCll OrtnCOITUng.
InCldent&liy, the word Eastd' IS derived from
"Eostre" or "Eastio," the Anglo-Saxon name for
i , , , , r,M... .......
tne kuuuvm ul npi o'K- 1 111 n avuvv in enwiiK vsv
on Easter Sunday and of giving them to children
Probably arose because,
the church', eggs were forbidden food during
Lent. The conception of the egg as a symbol of
fertility and of renewed life goes back, of course,
to pre-Christian days and readily found accept
ance as a symbol of resurrection. E.R.R.
made the decision on
Central committee, or
it, which has been, or
for Easter
celebrate.
a holy (lay. Three hun
vernal equinox varied ac-
was the correct OllC.
. .
date of Kastei he fixed
... v - v , ... . .... ...
the first Sunday after
April as Eastd' da.V, COll -
in the earlier days ol
i .
"Thoio craiy exilof re ready lo defy ihe whole U.S.
Navy to carry oul their raids on Cuba the lovable
little hotheads!"
Communications
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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 a 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.
Do Away With Monty
To the Editor: In your edi
torial, "Opportunity for Lead
ership," should get a few of
the labor force that still have
jobs away from their TV sets
long enough to look around
and see what is going on in
the world around them.
Automation is one of the
best things that ever happen
ed to mankind. If we had
any labor leaders, instead of
political stooges, they would
have the answer, and could
demand a peaceful transition.
But they haven't got the guts
and with a government that
is as confused as ours is, you
can expect exactly nothing.
Labor produces the wealth
of any country and should
share accordingly. We never
think of anything, only in
the terms of money. Money
never produced anything,
only trouble, greed, graft.
corruption, murders, gang
sters, dope peddlers and all
the other vices. Eliminate the
profit system and they will all
disappear. Ninety-five per
cent of persons in penal in
stitutions arc there tor person
al gain. Do away with money,
we will never have a society
fit to live In as long as wc
have money as a medium of
exchange.
Run the money changers
from their temple and wc will
be on the way. No, not the
barter system, just a sensible
system that we already have
a blue print of. There is only
one sensible solution to auto
mation. Labor must get the
benefit of the machine. Like it
or not the profit system must
go. The only alternative is
the bomb. Take your choice.
Ray Prichard
414 South First st.
Central Point. Ore.
Equal Enforcement
To Ihe Editor: This letter
is in reference to this city's
unorthodox style of enforce.
ment of the curfew laws.
Last week end, two of my
young friends were arrested
on a curfew violation charge.
Now this is a necessary law,
1 know, and I know why, but
1 believe if this law is going
to be enforced, it should be
enforced impartially. This 1
say because the night my
friends were arrested, one of
the officers that was there al
the time of the arrest, return
ed later to this same locale,
made a few Inquiries as to
the age of three or four yotlUll
present there. These guys arc
j over ihe age of 18 l know.
but there wore at least two
1 b lhcrc ,, , nlso know
voucneo ior mem ana un oi
PfSL-iil-
occulted .1 1 j
friends were
,,.kl.ri at l -m a.m. This
dbgtllta me. Sure these boys
Wtren't doing any harm, but :
'" " 'aJ??d? ol gov,
mv friends, who weien I do-,hemo
j,nB anv iarm cither, can bein prop
. .... , ..., if
that what the law sas If
arrested why not me other
" ... i
; boys'.' If tliev arc uemt;
arrest anyone, arrr.-i (he UU
ty one.-, all (be giiiny ones,
1 rich, poor, cops sons, and
bums' sons
. .
.xlram, dliuite for ottlcen
1 of the type mentioned earlier,
- -
na T1(J ls (,, nature,
everv uncorruptcd person
laato Uvaaamt.
Wayne Howard
MO Murray
Medford.
St.
Vliltor From Space
To the Editor: Wc cannot
see ourselves as others sec us.
but 1 am sure that if a p.f'--
man were to appear and view
our passing scene, he would
emphatically agree w ith our
MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
movie comic who used to ex
claim, "Ain't wc cwazy!"
Approaching the earth, he
would encounter our blanket
of smog, but perhaps would
be able to notice that our
streams were contaminated
and our forests ravished.
Reading our newspapers, he
would come across s u c h
"zany" items as: The English
group insisting that the earth
is flat; the American reform
er organizing a "Decency So
ciety" to put breech-clouts on
zoo animals; the eight high
school students in Dixon, III.,
setting out on a 100-mile hike
lo protest 50-mile hikes; the
homesick Cuban trying to
cross the Atlantic from the
Canary Islands in a barrel;
and the San Francisco bank
announcing t h e presumed
burning of $7.5 million in se
curities. (And I could tell him
about the mourner who. con
fused by his first encounter
with a twin funeral parlor,
attended the wrong service!)
Our cosmic observer would
learn that conversation, once
considered an art, is now but
a liodgc-podgc of argument
rather than discussion. Then
he would find that individual
THINKING has become passe
- taken care of "from cradle
to grave" by the clergy, law
yers, scientists, psychologists,
economists and politicians -to
say nothing of the censors
who tell us what publications
are "vcrbolen ' and what
movie and TV programs arc
"out." Then there arc the
myster ious "informed
sources" lhat open for us their
Pandora's boxes of propa
ganda and myths.
He would find our workers
In the Day's News
By FRANK
The other day. a moderate
ly well-to-do friend said to
inc:
"It costs me about $15,000
a year for the privilege of
living in the United States."
He was referring to his feder
al income taxes.
"It costs me about S5.00U
a year for the privilege of
living in the state of Oregon."
By that, he meant his state
income tax.
"It costs me about $430 a
year for the privilege of liv
ing in Klamath Falls and
Klamath county.'' By which
he meant tils iucal taxes on
his modest but comfortable
home.
(By way of explanation,
this is written in Klamath
Falls.)
kll, thai s another way
f .savins that the CLOS-
BR HOME wc can keep the
bulk o( government Ihe more
reasonable the cost of govern
ment will be.
The F A R T HER AWAY
Pl 1 llll mm n,.i-mit I lir Kllllf
I"" r
U government to be taken,
more government will cost
nrnriiirlinn tn xih.il UT CtM .
j
vl Why is REMOTE govern-
I IJ .V.t.. ....r-
mam n expensive r
Let me cue an instance
! .,.TTT 77"
'I'll!'. O I ' 1 C I . 1. CSMno M
1 Al Ullman, member of ihe
congress of Ihe Imtcd States
SL -
county is a part, announced O You see -
mat s.iu.uun nas been inciuri-
ed in the coming fiscal year s
federal budget to initiate a
lUldy of algae conditions in
the Klamath River Basin
He said in li is message:
"j am particularly pleased
to have been able to obtain
budget approval for the fl
nancing of tins- research proj
ect in tne budget that con -
gress is now considering We
I had previously bean advised
Foreign News: French Labor Stability
Seen; Amnesty Forecast in Viet Nam
By WILLIAM J. FOX
United Prasi International
Notes from the foreign
news cables:
Labor Troubles
Settlement of the current
wave of labor unrest in
France is expected to be fol
lowed by a period of calm and
hard work. But there is
trouble ahead on the West
German labor scene. French
workers normally take their
vacations in the month of
August. Other considerations
apart, they will be under
pressure from now on from
(heir families to stay on the
job and build up a little re
Matter of Fact y jepn ai.op
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE HOLDING OPERATION
Brussels There is some
thing very strange, and one
must add, something al
most frighten
ing about the
spectacle now
presented by
the European
Common Mar
k e t head
quarters here
i n Brussels.
This ostenta
tiously inter
national es
AJmp
tablishment on the Avenue of
the Joyous Entrance glor
ious address! once seemed
to hold the whole secret of
the European future. Here a
new Europe was being briskly
constructed by a new sort of
European.
Then Gen. de Gaulle ut
tered his resounding "no,"
not just to President Ken-
oing through the agony of
displacement by automation
and our college graduates the
frustration of "no job" - un
less they joined one of the
armed services. How appalled
he would be lo learn that such
as disease, poverty and crime
are rampant in our world!
And when he saw our chil
dren playing mock war
games, while their fathers
were "playing around" with
the hydrogen bomb, 1 can
imagine him exploding:
"No wonder you people
want to rocket to another
planet! You have outsmarted
yourselves in your creations
for destruction and are now
lost in a labyrinth of social
ignorance. I've seen enough!
I'm leaving for home - where
I can help prepare a new
Garden of Eden for Earth's
eventual only surviving cou
ple!" George M. Babcock
427 Hospital dr.
Ashland, Ore.
JENKINS
that funds would nol be avail
able." He added:
"Budget approval means
the passing of a major hurdle.
However, the legislative proc
ess, especially for money bills,
can be long and difficult. I
shall do everything I can to
insure that the $50,000
amount is included in full at
the appropriations bill for the
Department of Health. Educa
tion and Welfare."
WHAT shall we
The problem
B do abotit it!
problem of algae in
Upper Klamath Lake and the
trinmnih Dtin Dal I,.,.- U..
j . . j
surveyed and resurveyed and
then surveyed stunc mure.
Speaking with butal candor,
surveys of the algae problem
in this part of the worid arc
running out of our ears.
Still
tnother survey might hit
the jackpot.
IlKSinKS
O The making of this addi -
uonal survev would add SoO.-
1 . tl
uuu 10 ine ecuiiuin ui uic
tri.n.ih n, uhiM, i
' condition not whollv to be
. j h
Umc additional jobs - which
certainly wouldn't be any
thing to kick up a fuss about
; ND-
AND
Tl
' There's this thought
m
.,nNFV somkhody ki se
,
Xi,c money will be spent
, anywav. and we will have to
I pgy om- share of the reaultfhf
taxes just the same as if the
money had been spent here.
That s the way it stacks up
IN CONCIA'MUV
All this may give you so
omc
idea of why REMOTE govern
i ment is more expensive than
j government that is close at
I hand.
serve for that all important
vacation spree. Hence, the
prediction of staoility. In West
Germany, however, it is dif
ferent. The president of the
Federation of German In
dustries, Fritz Berg, has urg
ed a freeze on wage increases
for the time being. But the
leader of the Hesse Federa
tion of Trade Unions, Ernst
Leuninger. was quick to
counter that a freeze in profit
taking by industry would be
more to the point. Leuninger i
said the simple answer to any
economic problems was to
stop price-hiking for addition
al profits rather than call for
a pay pause.
ncdy's "grand design" for the
Western Alliance, but also to
the Eurocrats' design for the
European future.
TT CANNOT
be too often
X
emphasized that the ex
clusion of Britain from
Europe was not the most im
portant aspect of this "no" of
the General's. The most im
portant aspect was, rather, de
Gaulle's brutal assertion of
super-heated, glory-intoxicated
French nationalism in the
bosom of a European com
munity dedicated to and de
pendent on the submergence
of nationalism.
The contradition, as the
Soviets would describe it, had
always been there. On taking
power, Gen. de Gaulle accord
ed a single, intensely disa
greeable interview to the
leading French Eurocrat,
Robert Marjolin. In the course
of it, the General described
the Treaty of Rome with su
preme disdain as "your little
commercial treaty."
But de Gaulle did nothing
lo disturb the Eurocrats un
duly so long as he regarded
their activities as mere "in
tendance" one of those spec
ial Gaullisl usages with strong
overtones of the old French
monarchy which means, ap
proximately, petty financial
and economic administration.
The "no" was spoken, and
thus the contradiction became
flagrant, when the labors of
(he Eurocrats seemed about
to pass the limits of simple
"intendancc."
CQUARELY faced with this
contradiction, as they now
are, what are the Eurocrats
going to do.' The answer,
crudely speaking, is that they
arc going to attempt a holding
operation, which may lead to
some forward movement In a
year or two.
There are three main fac
tors involved in this holding
operation. First of all, the
French very much want the
completion of the Common
Market's common agricultur
al policy because France has
far the best land in Europe.
A common agricultural policy
will help France importantly.
while conferring little bene
fit on the other Europeans
and actually calling for polit
ically painful sacrifices by the
Germans.
Secondly, all the other
Europeans arc eager, in vary
ing degrees, for an outward
looking approach to the "Ken
nedy round" of trade bargain
ing with the U. S. Here, the
French attitude is doubtful
But it is thought that Fac
tor One can be played off
against Factor Two. In other
words, it is thought that a
package deal can be bar
gained out in the next year or
so, providing both the needed
arrangements to complete the
common agricultural policy I
and the preparations for the
right kind of approach to the
"Kennedy round. '
AS CAN
two v
be seen.
t least
be re-
cars will
quired to complete the initial
;.,, r '., , .
inter - European chafferin
about the package deal, plus
the subsequent chaffering of
the "Kennedy round" itself.
In the end, (he Eurocrats hope
for mutual American-Euro-
pean tariff cuts averaging
about 30 per cent Which
means that they no longer
have such high aims as they
1 cherished a little while ago
Then, third and finally, de
Gaulle will lose his veto
power, under the terms of the
'ealy Koin.e' Ju?! auou
when the above-described
processes are complete. Be
ginning in 1966. in lac'., the
Common Market can take de
cisions binding on all its
members, including political
decisions, by weighted ma;or-
..,.
When de Gaulle's veto is
thus annulled, the Eurocr
think they will be abie to go
forward more briskly. They
do not believe that Gen. de
Gaulle will wish to break up
the Common Market, thus iso-
I latlng ance and creating the
j conditions for a transformed
Common Market including
the other five European
states. Britain and some ot
the other free trade area
countries
i In some degree. :n fact.
i they hope they can eventually
j impose their will on de
Gaulle It is a bold hope.
Vietnamese Amnesty
. The South Vietnamese gov
ernment is expected to an
nounce later this month an
extensive amnesty program
designed to win back villag
ers recruited by the Commu
nist Viet Cong rebels. The an
nouncement probably will be
made by Ngo Dinh Nhu. Presi
dent Ngo Dinh Diem's broth
er and political adviser. Nhu
has been the driving force be
hind the successful "strategic
hamlet" program which has
grouped scattered villagers
into concentrated strong
points and deprived the Reds
of much support. His aim with
the amnesty is to get at least
50 defections a month from
the Viet Cong organization in
every province. The chances
of success: Fair to middling,
Reform in Louisiana
And Other Oddities
By Arthur Hoppe
New Orleans - As you prob-
ably know, lovely Louisiana
ranks among the very highest
states in this great land of
ours. In corruption. And few
cities can hold a candle to
quaint old New Orleans when
it comes to crime, vice and
sin in general. So it's good to
know they re reforming it.
Again.
Only this lime the reform
er is the District Attorney
himself, Mr. Jim Garrison.
And that's pretty unheard of
in these parts. Moreover, peo
ple are beginning to think he
really means it. Because after
ten short months on the job
the politicians want his scalp,
the police chief wants his
head, all his investigative
funds have been taken away,
he's under a jail sentence for
questioning the honesty of
eight criminal judges and he
may get kicked out of office
at any minute. How's that for
proving your sincerity?
Well, personally, while I'm
all for reform, I've found I
don't care much for reform
ers. They're so righteous. So
it was with some hesitation
that I put on my ace news
man's hat and dropped by
Mr. Garrison's office to pay
a duty call. I found him - a
huge-handsome, slow-speaking
man of 41 - sitting in his shirt
sleeves, feet on the desk, talk
ing strategy with his bright,
young staff.
"Let's," said Mr. Garrison
as the clock struck 5 p.m.,
"all go have a drink." And
right there, I knew I'd found
a reformer I was going to like.
So wc ail wandered along
Bourbon street, Mr. Garrison
proudly pointing out the clip
joints he'd closed. "It wasn't
only that they were running
prostitutes," he said, "but
they'd go for the whole entire
wallet. Very greedy. Then the
young lady would disappear
before delivering. And that,"
he said shaking his head wry
ly, "is a real crime."
Over a drink at Pepe's (very
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(O Field Enterprise!, inc.
I was given a fountain pen
for my twelfth birthday. It
was a handsome, substantial
i n s t r u ment
which I kept
and used for
more than a
dozen years,
and f e 1 1 a
keen sense of
$'m loss when it
d i s a ppeared
one day. Now
a full genera
Hrri tion later, I
own no fountain pen. Instead,
like most of us, I am forever
, Thrv " rlvrthpv rh:ivt
no character, and they seem
to vanish from sight over
night.
The case of the ball-point
pen is almost the prototype
of our modern social order.
Wc have more of everything,
but less of anything. A dozen
ball-point pens, scattered
about the house, with half of
them inkless, do not some -
how ?'
p to one good foun-
I tain
It it a trivial example,
but not without signific
ance. The old - fashioned
fountain pen did not really
become obtolete; good pent
of this tort today are tvtn
better than they were 30
yeart ago - but we hive got
out of the habit of buying
them and keeping them.
It teemt eetier and cheap
er to pick up a dozen bail
pointt: but it it, in reality,
neilhtr eetier nor cheaper.
For the pent don't work
when you want them to.
and over a period of a year
thay add up to more than
the price ot- a decent pen
MM
ISM
Bali Volcano
Gunung Agung Volcano on
the fabled Island of Bali,
which erupted March 17 and
snuffed out more than 1.600
lives, could blow up again at
any time. But voicanologists
say the eruption would be im
possible to predict, particu
larly with a volcano whose
past behavior is largely un
recorded. Their seismographs
;-how no new lava plug form
ing, and such a plug general
ly is a necessary preliminary
to any dangerous new erup
tion. As long as Gunung
Agung literally keeps letting
off steam as it is now, the
pressure is unlikely to build
up again to the danger point.
But if it does blow again, the
damage could be far worse
than before because of the
thinner, weakened walls of
the existing crater.
respectable).
Garrison
told his story. It goes like
tins:
He was elected last May,
the only winning candidate
in New Orleans history not
endorsed by one of the various
political machines. He prompt
ly knocked over the historic
bailbond racket, began clean
ing up Bourbon street and
suggested that as the jail was
bursting at the scams, per
haps the judges could work
a little harder too. Consider
ing they traditionally took off
no fewer than 223 days a
year.
This didn't make the judges
happy. And led by Judge J.
Bernard Cocke, a hangover
from the old Huey Long re
gime, the judges cut off Mr,
Garrison's funds for investiga
tion, saying New Orleans aft
er all did have a police force.
Which is generally considered
a laugh.
"This action," retorted Mr.
Garrison cheerfully if brash
ly, "raises interesting ques
tions as to racketeer influ
ences on our eight vacation
minded judges." Great. Mr.
Garrison is now appealing a
sentence of four months in
jail or a $1,000 fine for def
amation of character. Eight
characters, actually. "That's
only $125 a character," says
Mr. Garrison. "Of course," he
added modestly, "it was an
understatement."
Well, the only reason I
bring the whole thing up is
(1) to prove there are such
things as likable reformers.
And (2) to get you to think
I understand Louisiana poll
tics. Because, as I explained the
other day, I'm on my way
to South America to bring
you an up-to-the-minute re
port on politics down there.
And you know how politics
are down there: dynastic, cor
rups and absolutely incompre
hensible to Americans. Or to
put it another way. pretty
much like Louisiana's.
J. Harris
thai might last a decade.
It it too easy to blam
the manufacturers, or the
marketing procaai, or the
advertising agendas, for
this tad decline in our hab
its and praclieet. What la
harder to do is accept the
fact that permanence, con
linuity, excellence of work
manthip, are no longer the
ttandardt we live up to in
our own lives.
And perhaps it must be so in
our "affluent society." Per
haps our rise in the material
standard of living demands
that wc purchase inferior ob
jects, discard them speedily,
and buy new ones just as in
ferior. To keep a pen. or aiiy
object, for a iong time, is to
limit our "productive capac
ity." Perhaps, as some eco
nomists argue, waste makes
wealth.
Each people develop their
own national style. Our siyle.
! as the 20th century proceeds.
seems to be more and mora
in the direction of change,
novelty, tcmporariness, lha
annual model turnover, and
"planned obsolescence." It
used to be considered a
I Yankee virtue lo buy some-
thing that would last a long
time; now it seems a sin
against our economic deities.
A ball-point pen is a pecu
: liarly American phenomenon,
along with the frozen dinner,
I the instant coffee, the dispos
i able diaper, the plastic dish,
I the paper-bound book. In each
case there is some advantage;
: but we have not yet com? to
ask ourselves whether our
ideas and ideals are becom.
j ing as temporary and dispos-
able as our objects.
Mr.
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