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"Picketing! Demonstrations! Government
Meddling! I Don't Know What Thi.
Country Ii Coming To"
10 YEARS AGO
June 8. 1953 (Tuesday)
The Horace Heidt show will
be preesnted st the high
school stadium as scheduled
at 8 o'clock this evening.
Lelghton Tuttle, Eugene,
today won the Junior cham
pionship in the Southern Ore
gon Junior Golf tournament
at Rogue Valley Country club.
20 YEARS AGO
June 9, 1943 (Wednesday)
New Community Chest di
rectors tor Medford Include
Mrs. C. Rease Braley, A. M.
Cannon, Frank Farrell, Henry
Herman. Dwlght Houghton,
Larry Schade, E. E. Kotoed,
A. S. Cummlngi, Herb Grey
Elwood Hedberg, Karl Jan-
ouch, John Moffat, Leonard
Mayfleld and B. L. Nutting.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Kmnriea Pot" column: "Boys
will be boys ai.d the girls
don't mind dressing like one,
30 YEARS AGO
June 9. 1933 (Friday)
Pear crop loans In Rogue
valley reach total of 9399,000.
Dr. Phlpps announces hli
candidacy lor Medford school
board.
40 YEARS AGO
June 9. 1923 (Saturday)
Forest service announces
plans to construct garage at
.Union Creek.
Gua Schneidau and Ted
Thye scheduled to wrestle at
Gold Hill.
80 YEARS AGO
June 9, 1913 (MsnrU)
Lou Shaw, Chicago, defeats
Chris Gottlieb, Medford, in
championship balk -line Mi
llard game.
Large crowd attends gradu
ation ceremonies at St. Mary's
academy; Miss Maude New
bury only graduate.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina r tea correct It tuea'lac;
oven or elaht It eieallenti five or
lia ii fe4.
1. Who was the first Vice
Preident to succeed to the
Presidency became of the
death of a President?
2. What fictional seafarer
landed on a fish by mistake
and escaped in a woodrn tub?
3. Where Is the Ivory Coast
located?
4. In music, how many
clefts are there?
5. In dry measure, how
many quarts are there in one
bushel?
6. Name the capital of Ore
gon. 7. What la the chemical
symbol for Sodium?
8. Identify the scientist who
advanced the theory of rela
tivity. .,
9. In this sequence, what
number should logically fol
low the last one: 90, 47, 53, 46.
43. 51, 42.
10. Warren C. Magnuson is
the senior Senator from which
State?
Answers: 1. Tyler io Harri
son. 2. Sinbad tha sailor (In
Arabian Nights). 3. French
West Africa. 4. Three. S.
Thirty-two. 8. Salem. 7. Na.
8. Albert Einstein. 9. Thirty
nine. 10. Washington.
Formation of a citizens' advisory committee
to study and submit recommendations on the
secondary school needs of the Medford district is
one of the more noticeable actions stemming from
ideas discussed on trips to other school districts
in the country in recent months.
Use of such a committee had been considered
prior to the Oregon Program trips. But the visita
tions gave the board and administrators a chance
to see how the groups were organized, what type
of organization was best, and just what the re
sponsibility of a citizens' advisory committee was.
These observations have given the Medford
board a unique opportunity to organize a cit
izen's advisory committee from the more desir
able points of organization discussed on the trips.
And the board has taken advantage of the op
portunity. , . .
TTHE board has, from the start, selected district
taxpayers who in the past have indicated an
interest, pro or con, in school affairs, or who the
board believes will be interested enough to do
nate the time necessary for a detailed study.
It took care that all geographical areas of the
district were represented; it took care also that
committee members represented a good cross
section of business, industry, agriculture, and
professional fields.
The board also made every effort to avoid
accusations of "stacking" the committee. Board
members named both supporters and critics to
the committee. How well the board achieved its
coal may be attested through a comment over
Heard after the organizational meeting when one
committee member said jestingly: "This commit
tee's stacked, but I haven't determined yet just
which way."
The board considered and discussed at length
the qualifications of a general chairman and vice
chairman. It selected unanimously Harlan P.
Bosworth Jr. as general chairman in the belief
that he met the qualifications, including the time
to devote to the job. ,
If the enthusiasm he showed at a recent or
ganizational meeting is an indication, he will
serve the district well in heading the advisory
committee.
"VJE of the duties of the general chairman will
be to see that the committee continues its
study and that it prepares reports on its findings.
His responsibility cannot be minimized.
Neither can the responsibility of each mem
ber of the committee be minimized, for they will
study the needs and program of the system under
which their junior ana senior high school age
i M i l j . l mi. i . i
cniiaren are Demc eaucaieu. i neir recommend
ations will have a beanne on what tvne of an
j-' ... i
educational system may be available for those
children on a secondary level in the future.
The study conducted by the committee, and
bv subcommittees, of which there nrobablv will
be at least five, should be rewarding in more
ways than one.
THE citizens' advisory committee will serve a
a Tum.-f r1rr ninnnco
First, it will study and make recommenda
tions to the board as to what course of action
might be desirable concerning the secondary
school needs; and secondly, it will serve as a
liaison between the school board and administra
tors and the general public so the latter may more
fully understand some of the complex problems
iacing ine aisinci.
The board has been careful not to reveal its
opinions to members of the committee; on at
least one occasion it declined to answer a ques
tion at a recent school board meetinir because it
was then considering formation of the commit
tee. The question was asked by a person who is
now on the committee.
DOARD members and the administrative staff
have stressed that they will serve only as
consultants and as "leg men" for the committee,
to obtain and provide information sought by the
group.
It will be up to the citizens to come to their
own decisions so that reports, both majority and
minority, may be made on the basis of what the
committee learns.
The citizen's advisory committee is a new ex
perience for the district, although in the past un
official citizens' groups have informally organ
ized to direct criticism at certain aspects of the
program, or of financing it.
The time now seems to be right to seek the
thinking of an official citizens' committee.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
(e 19SS. The Waihinfton Poet
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(e) Ntw York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THANK THE DOGSI
Washington-It Just may be
that Gov. Ross Barnett of
Mississippi and the police dogs
of Commis
sioner Bull
Connor of
Birmingh a m
Ala., have co
oper a t e d to
cause a hope
f u I turning
point in the
cruel civil
rights crisis.
Alanp l n Aiaoama,
to begin with, there is a glim
mer of hope that Gov. George
C. Wallace will not "do a Ross
Barnett" on Monday, when
Miss Vivian Malone will pre
sent herself for admission to
the University of Alabama.
No doubt the governor will
stand in the door, as he has
promised to do, but he may
not use violence to prevent
Miss Malone from entering
the door.
If this long-feared moment
on Monday does not erupt
Into violence, it will be large
ly owing to the desire of Influ
ential and sensible people in
Alabama to have no more
scenes In their state like those
enacted in Birmingham and
at the University of Mississippi.
THE trustees of Alabama
university have been the
leaders, but all sorts of other
Alabamans in key places have
joined to beg the governor
not to "do a Ross Barnett.
As these words are written,
the latest reports from the
scene of action are downright
optimistic. And without the
dogs and Ross Barnett, such a
mobilization against violence
and lawlessness would hardly
have been possible. For pre
cisely the same reason (illogi
cal as this may seem) there
has been an important shift in
Congressional opinion. Quite
suddenly, the passBge or a
civil rights bill this year has
become a quite imaginable
event. "It won't be easy, but
It can happen," is the verdict
of one of the most knowledge
able members of the Senate
club.
The key to the problem is
the dominant group of Repub
licans In the Semite, with Sen,
Burke Hlckenlooper of Iowa
coming next In Importance
after the Senate minority
leader, Everett Dirkscn of It
linols. Playing with the South
em conservatives has always
been these Republicans' game.
If the Republican-Southern
conservative coalition is main
taincd, there is not even s
ghostly chance of civil rights
action by Congress, either
now or In the next session. It
may not be necessary to in
voke cloture in order to pass
a civil rights bill, but there
will have to he enough votes
behind the bill to pass a clo-
ture motion if need be-which
means two-thirds of the Sen
ate. And such a bill cannot
get the needed two-thirds vote
without Republicans of the
Dlrksen-Hickenlooper stripe.
m e e
HPHE dramatization of the
" civil rights crisis, particu
larly by the horrifying photo
graphs from Birmingham of
Bull Connors police meas
ures, has brought much mail
from the midwestern Republi
can states. The clergy, partic
ularly, are up in arms. Sen.
Hickenlooper, shocked him
self like his fellow Iowans,
has told some of his Southern
friends that he may no longer
be able to stand by them.
This is the background, in
turn, of the sudden delay of
the President's civil rights
message and the accompany
ing administration bUl, which
were expected to go to Con
gress last week. With his cus
tomary legislative flair, Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson
scented the change of atmos
phere, and advised the Presi
dent to wait.
The delay is in fact design
ed to give the President time
to touch all the legislative
bases, and to do everything he
can, first of all to mobilize
advance national support, but
above all to rally Republican
support in Congress. The key
event will come this week,
when the President will meet
quieUy with the Republican
as well as the Democratic
Congressional leaders - both
parties being included on the
sound ground that this is
national emergency.
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THE MIRACLE OF
POPE JOHN
lhe reign of Pope John
has been a wonder which
grows more astounding the
more we think how, amidst
the angry en-
mities of our
time, he be
came so greav
loved. It is
modern
miracle that
anyone could
reach across
all the barri
ers of class.
uppauia - caste, color
and creed to touch the hearts
of all kinds of people. There
has been nothing like it, cer
tainly not in the modern age.
The miracle is a proof which
we sorely needed that all the
varieties of men do actually
belong to one human family.
Otherwise, so many could not
have heard and understood
and responded to Pope John.
That they have responded
is proof that the enmities and
divisions of mankind are not
the whole reality of the hu
man condition. There is in
men a capacity, unplumbed
and perhaps unmeasurable,
to be reached by loving kind
ness. The miracle of Pope
John is that he knew this
and believed it and had faith
to act upon it, and that he
was proved to have been
right. So, as he lies dead, he
is revered and blessed by all
sorts and conditions of men
all around the globe.
E KNOW that the miracle
JORE than a year and a half ago, the school
board decided to build a new high school.
But action on the decision was delayed, and per
haps the delay has been fortunate, for two rea
sons. Since reaching its earlier decision, the board
has had an opportunity to visit other school dis
tricts under the Oregon Program. It has toured
buildings adapted to educational programs, vari
ations of which may be desirable here. If some
of these programs are adopted locally, certain
types of building may be desirable.
Secondly, the board has, since its decision,
received information which indicates the present
site on Crater Lake ave. may be undesirable for
a school because of its promixity to the airport
and the possibility of future jet traffic.
These two points will be among those consid
ered by the citizens' advisory committee.
They are among the problems of the district's
secondary school needs for which a solution is
not easy, and the task facing the citizens' ad
visory committee is not an easy one. E.H.A.
THE kind of legislation being
discussed is also encourag
ing. The administration al
ready has a bill on the Hill to
increase the safeguards lor
Negro voting rights. To this
would be added another bill
outlawing segregation in all
public accommodations com
ing under the commerce
clause of the Constitution, and
allowing the Justice Depart
ment to Intervene more effec
Uvely In school desegregation
cases.
It this kind of legislative
package really can be passed
and one must keen all fingers
crossed -the advance will be
greater than anyone could
possibly have dared to hope
for, even a few weeks ago.
Yet there Is a bitter flavor in
tills cup of hope.
In a recent nationwide civil
service examination of a rou
tine sort, 1,800 Negroes were
candidates, and only about 80
passed the test. The explana
tion of this ugly statistic, of
course, lies In the educational
and economic handicaps so
long imposed on the Amcrl
can Negro community. Equal
rights are only a first step on
the long, hard, but necessary
road towards removing these
handicaps.
transform the world. The con
dition of man is a hard one,
and his struggle to survive
and prevail will not disappear
with the appearance of a saint
and the proclamation of a
saving truth. We shall not
suddenly become new men.
But the universal response
which Pope John evoked is
witness to the truth that there
is in the human person, how
ever prone to evil, an apti
tude for goodness. That is why
we must never despair that
the world can be better than
the world we live in.
It is evident to anyone who
reads the two great encycli
cal letters, "Mater et Magis
tra" ("Mother and Teacher")
and "P a c e m in Terris"
("Peace on Earth"), that Pope
John, far from being naive
and unworldly, had an ency
clopaedic and acute knowl
edge of the complex and stub
born problems of the daylight
world. The encyclical letters
do not suppose that the world
can be ctsrvd before the prob
lems that harass it are
brought to solution. The en
cyclical letters are, therefore,
directed to the solution of hu
man problems by ordinary
men. They are cornerstones of
an Imposing eon struction
which, as it la carried for
ward, will become acceptable
and increasingly self evident
to men who deal toward
each other with respect for
the human person and for
his reason.
The belief that there are
such self - evident concepts
and propositions has been de
nied by many in the modern
age. Yet our own American
institutions were founded by
men who had been taught to
think it self-evident that men
are capable of reason and that
this is a universe which can
be lived in rationally. The
Founding Fathers inherited
this belief. For modern secu
lar men, who have been
taught to reject it, an Act
of Faith is needed. When the
belief exists, as it did so pro
foundly in Pope John, it can
become the intellectual core
of what can be a human
doctrine which transcends
conflicting diversity.
e e
THE movement to bring the
teaching of the church to
bear upon "the process of
radical change" In the mod
ern "economic and political
situation" begins, says Pope
John, with Pope Leo XIII.
The first of the great mod
ernizing social messages is
the encyclical "Rerum Nova
rum" of May 15, 1891, on
"the condition of the work
ing classes." Pope John car
ried forward this movement
not only in his two great en
cyclical letters, but by call
ing together the Ecumenical
Council.
What will now -come of all
this will be of critical impor
tance not only to the Catho
lic church, but to all churches
and to all governments. In
any event, the modernizing
movement can perhaps be ar
rested, but it cannot for long
be turned back.
For what Pope John began
will have very big conse
quences, and the history of
our world will be different
because he lived.
.-V.
Km ;'5inrD
DREAMS I'VE HAD
Some lucky people dream
about falling endlessly into
an unfathomable abyss or
running about barefooted in
a pitfall type of a pit full of
snapping snakes. I dream
scenarios.
Just the other night, (fol
lowing tamale a la mode for
dinner) I found myself drift
ing down the river Nile on a
flower-covered barge. Slave
girls were peeling grapes and
kicking at the crocodiles for
my comfort. A 20 piece lute
band was playing "Alexan
der's Rag-time Band" and all
in all, it was a very satisfac
tory dream except that I had
the vague feeling that some
thing was missing. Between
grapes, I said to a slave girl
(played by Sophia Loren):
"Where's Liz ... I mean
Where's Cleopatra?"
Sophia peeled another
grape and said in sultry
Egyptian (I dream in foreign
languages, too):
"Oh, she missed the boat."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
What's In the news?
HOLD YOUR HAT!
TN
A fel
WASHINGTON, the De
fense Department wants to
drill a MILE-DEEP hole in
the ground and bury at its
base a "post-attack" command
control head quarters for
emergency use in any nuclear
holocaust.
Presumably, after a nuclear
attack with 100 - megaton
bombs, everything would be
destroyed. From the bottom
of the mile-deep hole, experts
would then emerge to direct
the job of reconstruction.
rpHE cost of the hole and the
headquarters at the bottom
bf it is estimated at more than
$100 million. Opinion as to
the project is divided. The
chairman of the House Armed
Services committee is against
it. So is - General Thomas
Power, commander in chief of
the Pacific Air Command.
Defense Secretary McNa-
mara Is presumed tq be for it.
T SOUNDS weird. '
But at that it makes more
sense than some of the other
Washington proposals to
spend a hundred million dol
lars.
F)R example:
The United States is plan
ning a double-header space
shot to the neighborhood of
the planet Mars in the autumn
of 1964. It would be the pio
neer effort for a MANNED
shot about a decade later.
Details of the planned dou
ble-header came on the eve
of a two-day symposium on
the exploration of Mars, for
which many of the nation's
top space scientists are gather
ing at Denver.
MARS is supposed to have
an atmosphere-much less
dense than that of the earth,
but still an atmosphere. Many
straight, dark lines can be
seen on it through the tele
scopes.
Decades ago, Percival Lo
well Observatory at Flagstaff,
Arizona, believed these lines
were strips of vegetation
along the banks bf canals, and
that they proved the existence
of a very developed form of
life. He believed that the
regularity of the lines showed
they were planned by intelli
gent beings.
The purpose of this pro
posed space flight to Mars
would be to FIND OUT.
PROBING question:
Yn vnn rplrnn mruloi-n
man just might be getting too
big for his britches?
Ttf ORE about Mars:
The planet was named for
the god of war in Roman
mythology. Soldiers of the
Roman legions, going to war,
carried chickens that were
sacred to Mars. They fed corn
to these birds just before an
impending battle.
If the chickens ate hungrily.
It was a sign that the God of
Battles was on their side and
they would be sure to win. If
the chickens refused to eat,
the Roman soldiers believed
they would CERTAINLY
LOSE.
Fortunately for the military
campaigns of early Rome,
chickens seldom fail to eat
when feed Is spread before
them.
Editorial Comment
HAPPY DAZE
In case you didn't know,
June is Fight the Filthy Fly
month. It is also National Re
creation month, Mute Your
Muffler month, Dairy month,
National Barbecue month, Na
tional Ragweed Control
month, Portable Radio month
and National Home Perma
nent month. July also prom
ises excitement. Then we will
have National Hot Dog month,
National Iced Tea Time, Rye
, . . .WJ. j
3s
The very next night, I was
cast as a revolutionary soldier,
I was one of the oarsmen in
a boat pulling into a raw,
biting blizzard as we crossed
the Potomac. Having arrived
in the middle of a dream, I
didn't know why we were
there so I first looked over
the stern to see if we were
maybe pulling a water skier,
which we weren't. When I
looked at the bowv I suddenly
realized that Central Casting
had goofed. Turning to my fel
low oarsman, I said,
"It's really none of my busi
ness, but where is George?"
"Oh," he replied, "He miss
ed the boat and he's back at
the dock with Cleopatra."
When I awakened from this
dream, I swore that I would
never again eat Pappardelle
Coll' Anitra on an empty
stomach. (Gourmet note: that's
wide flat macaroni with a
long skinny duck.)
I dream pretty good West
erns, too. I've never hari a
starring role but I've hart
some pretty good supporting
parts, i'or instance, the other
night I found myself standing
in the middle of a Dodge City
street facing Marshal Matt
Dillon. I really felt that he
was over-acting it a bit as his
hands twisted nervously on
his holstered suns. I eave him
my best inscrutable smile as
I rolled a cigarette with one.
hand. Perhaps it was nervous
ness, but after I lit it, I dis
covered that I had forgotten
the tobacco, even though I
had remembered the filter.
With the confidence that
comes from years of dream
shooting, I went for my guns -
witn the stealth of a panther,
knowing that old Chester
would be lookine for a new
boss as the Marshal departed .
for the big court house in the
sky.
When the smoke cleared,
ther T stnnrl . xrarel
deaU
VS3
Another night (I believe
this followed a dandy dinner
consisting of pickled pig's
feet, butterscotch cream pie
and cold mashed potatoes) I
was standing at a roulette
table in Monte Carlo with,
stacks of chips four feet high
in front of me. The croupier
fthflf'fi D nrnfaecinnnl ffarrtHlf.
with a bad cough) paled as I
put an tne chips on number
one. (This was a sentimental'
selection because it happened
to be my own age a year after
I was born.)
The wheel s nun and tha
silver ball danced in a merry -
circle and then slowly settled
into number one.
I awoke just as Grace Kelly .
shot me neatly between tha
eyes and Alfred Hitchcock
yelled "cut!"
Bread Sales month and Pick
les for Picnic Time. Happy
daze. - Corvallis G a t 1 1
Times.
The Proliferation of Phoney Awards
This foreign philosophy ef non-violence It beginning
to bug me. It's un-Amrlcaa not to light back!''
By ERIC SEVAREID
There are rumors around
that the President contem
plates an annual "honors list,"
in the British
style, for citl-
0i iciia wuu nave
. done, said or
made some
thing out of
the ordinary.
It is conceiv
able that the
plan has been
held up for
Sevareld want of a
nickname for the award.
"Tony," "Emmy" and "Oscar"
are already spoken for; and
while the Attorney General
would doubtless choose the
winners, design the medal and
fasten It upon the lucky lapels,
"a Bobby" would probably
come to be known in the Vul
gate as "Bobby Pin" and this
would scarcely do.
c e e
Theories differ as to the
presidential motivation.
Theory A holds that he thinks
the government now lacks suf
ficient means of recognizing
those citizens who have not
asked what their country
could do for them but vice
versa, and have found an an
swer. My own inclination is to
wards Theory B that In
erecting a superstructure over
the present infrastructure of
awards in this country he
seeks to repeal Gresham's law,
an action that would go some
considerable distance towards
repealing Parkinson's Law in
this field.
For soma time now, Gresh-
am's Law has been operating
with wild abandon bad hon
orary degrees, scrolls, plaques,
medals and gilt painted zinc
trophies have been driving
out the good ones, exactly as
"celebrity" has been driving
out the precious word "fame,"
and as the serried rows of
Publicity Saints have been
taking over the field from
Great Men.
e a e
To change the metaphor,
the President must be hanker
ing for a set of retrorockets
that can slow down the free
floating process, which moves
on in what is now a condition
of total weightlessness; but
they will have to provide a
most powerful counterthrust,
because the booster that put
Gresham's Law into social or
bit is Parkinson's Law as ap
plied to the Awards and
Emoluments sector of Uie so
ciety. Parkinson's Law in its
original and simpler meaning
established that in any given
office or agency work will in
crease in direct ratio to the in
crease in the number of work
ers and the amount of time on
their hands.
As applied to the social sec
tor under scrutiny here, P's
Law establishes that awards
will Increase in direct ratio,
not to the number of works of
excellence created, but to the
number of people engaged in
the field of work, whether it
be I i t e r a t u r e, journalism,
films, TV, drum majoretting,
baby sitting or eel-pirkling. In
the fields f journalism and
TV, where I lay claim to spec
ial knowledge. It has been ap
parent for some that that a
special sub-law is operating.
By this sub-law, the number
of awards and, in fact, award
dinners also Increase in rela
tion to the number of people
in the field who are not very
good at their work and who
have time, therefore, for or
ganizing awards and award
dinners.
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(Another variation of this
sub-law proves that the num
ber of unions in these fields
and related fields, such as the
film industry, will also in
crease in direct relation to the
number of unemployables in
each field that is, those
with both time and personal
motivation for nurturing said
unions. But I am over-egging
the pudding, as the British
say, and see no gain in fur
ther distraction of the reader.)
The true origin of the
American mania for scrolls,
plaques and medals remains
as mysterious as the true
source of the Nile. Psycholo
gists and anthropologists may
argue that the phenomenon is
a direct expression of the an
cient, ineradicable hun.in in
stinct to be different and
superior. But this instinct has
always been at war with the
contrary instinct to be Just
like everybody else, and I sus
pect that ravaging awardism
reflects this second instinct.
The only way to be differ
ent and distinct in America
today is to possess no formal
awards or distinction of any
kind, whatsoever. Such a con
dition, of course, would btv
laughably impermanent. At
any moment, any American
on an innocent stroll is liable
to seizure by the police,
forced transportation to City
Hall and the award of a scroll
by the Mayor as the 100,000th
resident to have deposited a
gum wrapper in Official
Trash Can Number One, at
Fourth and Main sis.
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It is possible that the Presi
dent can halt the inflation by
issuing a new award cur
rency; possible, but not prob
able. My own belief is that tha
the inflation will furiously go
on, until the manufacture of
photo-engraving plates and
die casting replace construc
tion and auto making aa
America's leading industries.
At some point general rebel
lion will set in. Attics will ba
cleaned out, library walls will
be stripped. Community bon
fires In public parks will cele
brate the end of the scrolls.
But if Yankee prudence sets
in all medals and plaques
will be shipped to a central
place and melted down.
Then, by popular subscrip
tion, one monument, half a
mile high, will be erected,
probably on the Great Plains.
It will be called the Award to
All Americans for Existing.
Conceivably it will be in tha
form of a dinner chairman,
cummerbund unhooked and
askew, falling on his own
steak knife.
(Distributed 1963. by
The Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Fights Reserved)
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