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DodysiiriGD Age ir ju . Slow (Editor, v i month President Kennedy viiiii the land ei hit an cestors. It will be a senti mental occasion and Ireland will put in beii fool for ward. ThU is another ol the proiilei oi countries written by United Preu Internation al reporter! living and working there.) By DONAL O'HIGGINS United Press Inlernciional Dublin -fllPH- It is not for nothing that Ireland has been called "the Emerald Isle." The industrial age has been slow to come here and the Irish countryside lies mostly untarnished, lush - and green. Ireland's slow industrializa tion is not an unmixed bless ing. This is still primarily a land of farmers but its agri culture has not been enough for Ireland to keep in eco nomic step with the rest of the world. Its problems run deep, and it lives with rela tively high chronic unemploy. mem. Yet for so small a land, Ireland has mflH irrpnl human impact on the world. Its folk songs are hummed and sung wherever people gather. Its emigrants have played a dramatic part in the building of America. Its patron saint, Patrick, has been virtually adopted in many lands and its symbol, the shamrock, treated on all the continents as a talis man of good luck and good will. Land of Contrasts A land of contrasts is Ire land. The past and the present live comfortably together. It lies beside Europe but its spiritual empire is in North America. The basic wealth of Ire land is in agriculture. Only In the last 40 years has there been an effort to build up in dustry, and it has been slow going. Centuries of occupation hrnucht TrplnnH Intn tha onfh Century as a chronically back- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OREGON SUNDAY. MAY 6, 1963 B Dim Coming 4d Emeraldl Dsle ward .nation. Not until the civil war of 1922 was the truce signed that ended Brit ain's long occupation. Ireland is divided into lour provinces - in ancient times they were known as kinR- ships - which are again sub divided into counties, 32 in all. Only 26 of those counties are governed from Dublin and constitute the republic of Ire land. Their population is only 2,815,000. The other six, part ol the province of Ulster, were separated by an act of the British parliament in 1920. There comprise north ern Ireland and are subject to Britain. The Irish Republic never has recognized the separation and agitates still for union. The constitution of the re; public states unequivocally that "the national territory consists of the whole island of Ireland, its islands and the territorial seas." Ending of the partition or the reunification of the coun try is the outstanding major goal of Irish foreign and do mestic policies. Ireland's efforts to Join tht European Economic Commu nity, which failed in the wake of President de Gaulle's hos tiliy to Britain's application for membership, are a yard stick of the economic progress made by the country in the last 40 years. Although Ireland has made good progress, she still needs the impetus of foreign capital and pursues an active policy to oncourage it including spe- BLOW IN DEVELOPING Ireland, whose basic wealth lies in agriculture, has been slow to build up industry. In the top pic ture, workmen put dried turf, or peat. Into cart to use as fuel during the winter, while in the bottom picture, drafstmen draw on specially-prepared metal outline of nose and rear sections of a turbo-prop airfreight er. (UPI) Freedom Savings Bond Drive Here The second annual Freedom Savings Bonds Drive is now under way in all cities of the nation. The quota assigned for Medford is $105,000. The drive will continue un til July 4, according to Thom as S. Prideaux, chairman of the Oregon Savings Bonds committee. Prideaux has voiced the hope that every family in the state with a regular income will buy at least one Savings Bond during the drive. No county quotas have been assigned but all major cities and towns in the state have been asked to assume dollar goals equal to last year's sales in May and June plus a small increase. Truly Elegant . . . for the best mom in the world! cial grants and tax conces sirns. . v : ' One attraction to foreign in vestors is,the prospect of rela tively cheap labor where the average industrial wage is 12 pounds, (approximale'y 436) a week. : In ins past two years about 50 foreign controlled com panies have set up manufac turing plants in Ireland, and many r f them in the free trade r ne at Shannon Air port in County Limerick. The rate of marriage in Ire land (5.8 per one thousand) has always been a source of worry to governments and so cial workers, particularly in the rural areas where the mar riage rate is low and the mar riage age high, normally in the late 30's. The traditional reluctance of the eiders in the rural families to let go oi the land has been recorded as one of the key difficulties in this re spect. Lack of social ameni ties and suitable housing plus the lure of city lights ore other reasons behind the poor marriage rate. . But one of the less under stood facets of Irish life today is the influence of the tiny Protestant minority. Although surrounded by an overwhelm ingly Roman Catholic popula tion, the Protestant minority has traditionally exercised in fluence well beyond its nu merical strength. One president of the Re public of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was a Protestant and his religious beliefs appeared to play no signiticant part, in the minds of all parties when they agreed to his selection. Ireland, which once boaited the description "the island of saints and scholars," has pro duced many great literary figures such as Joyce, Shaw and O'Casey. 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