THURSDAY. APRIL 25. 1963
MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
easures Approved
By Legislature
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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.
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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
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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
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