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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. The influence
these men exerted is still evi
dent in the scores of study
groups meeting in the capital.
Once a nation of playgoers,
Ireland has seen its theater
steadily declining for years
and at present it has reached
its lowest ebb.
The once-famed Abbey Na
tional Theater, training
ground for many famous ao
tors and film stars, is current
ly the butt of an ever-surging
critical controversy. Its fail
ure to accept plays from. Irish
writers that have since become
internationally acclaimed has
played a large part in the criti
cism of the Abbey.
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