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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1963)
THURSDAY. APRIL 25. 1963 MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON easures Approved By Legislature Salem -0IPD- Measures ap 51963. Sureiuof Advertising. AN FA proved Wednesday by the leg islature: Br the House: HB1660 - Public assistance HB1780-Publication of le gal notice. HB1827 - Clarifying admin istration ol justice in charter counties. SB328 - Teachers sick leave. By the Senate: SB370 - New workmen's compensation measure. SCR11 - Praising Oregon track and field team. SB180 - Botanical plants. SB189- Relating to appraisal. 0 A SB211 - Relating to liquor. SB 280 - Letting state insti tution superintendents stay beyond retirement age. SB295 - Bureau of labor. HB1087 -Valida tionof school district matters. HB1238 - Clarifying non support law. Small Worlds Around Us y Lynn W. Watkins ftcf litrr 4c Tribune Syndicate, 1913k Is There Color in Darkness Or Sound Without Hearing? The silly discussion still goes on: Is the inside of a ripe watermelon red before it is opened? Sounds like a ridiculous question. Let's kick it around a bit and see if it gets sillier. Perhaps there is a little something to the question that doesn t show on the surface Admittedly, it resembles the argument regarding the light Inside the electric refriger ator, and whether or not it goes out when the door is closed. Or, take a plum: la the pulp inside 'the skin blue before the skin is broken? Color depends on light. The oretically, there is no color where there is no light. We know a red carnation is red. But if we turn off the light in a dark room, the color is not present or at least not evident. Ten carnations of different colors become 10 colorless flowers in the dark as the in side of the ripe watermelon or the pulp of a plum. All Color Blind To add a little more con fusion to the organized chaos, scientists say that animals de tect no color in any object. Your dog, they say, see ev erything in various shades of gray. Even the angry bull, supposed to become very an gry at the side of a red cape, is hopelessly color blind. There are, of course, some pretty wise folks who contra dict this color blindness the ory in animals. I'm not wise, but I have seen evidences of what looked like color con sciousness in many animals, but I sure can't prove it. So I must be wrong. These lines o( reasoning open up other equally con fusing questions, one of which has to do with sound. It seems as silly as the colorless inside of an unopened watermelon. This one, too, has been batted around a great deal. The ques tion: Dues a tree crashing to the earth in a deep forest make a sound if there arc no ears there lo hear it? Superficially it sounds sil ly; theoretically it poses a subject for argument. Serious ly, there is something about It just a little hard to under stand or explain. Before you become too vehement in deny ing it, think about radio waves that emit from a hroadcasling station. The sound is every where in (lie air but we can not hear it without a radio tuned to t lie frequency o the wave impulses. Pilch Too High There Is a dog whistle that makes no sound as far as hu man ears can detect. The pitch is loo high ... far above the range covered by our audi tory nerves. The curious character who worries about whether or not the light (joes off inside the refrigerator when the door closes actually hasn't much of a problem. There are many ways he could find out be tides shutting himself inside. He was stupid enough to think ol such a thing in the first place. All of which probably gels us no closer to a solution lo the problem, if it is a problem. of noise where there are no cars lo hear, or color where there is no light. But it all does help to show there are many seemingly stupid things that many of us cannot com pletely understand or explain Perhaps it doesn't make any difference, but it can give us something different lo worry about. Portland KM Judith L Slone of Sherwood has been named winner of the annual Law Day high school editorial contest conducted by the Ore gon State Bar like looking for someone who doesn't read newspapers Very hard to find. 99 million people in almost 9 out of every 10 homes read newspapers. It's the most sought after, often bought, eagerly consumed, intensely depended upon product in the world. The reason is obvious, We can't do without it. The need to know about the news and events that touch and shape our lives is deep, intense, unending. And the need to know is now. Today. So it's not very hard to figure out why more advertising dollars are spent in daily newspapers than in TV, I I -1 magazines, radio, ana outaoor comDinea. More People Do More Business With Newspapers!
