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Outdoor Family Fun
Editor's note: The following is adapted and con
densed from remarks made at a visitors host school
conducted here Thursday by the tourist and conven
tion committee of the Medford Chamber of Commerce.
Washington, D. C, June, 1963
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Hlitory from tha files of The
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and 60 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June II, 1M1 (Tueaday)
Woman unanimously elect
ed by ths Medford city coun
cil to fill the unexpired term
as city recorder of the late
Ralph Woodford. '
Television t r a n s m 1 1 ter
equipment for station KBES
TV. shipped by express from
Syracuse, N.Y., arrived in
Medford this morning by
train.
20 YEARS AGO
June II, IMS (Wednesday)
Three Aihland young peo
ple killed when car careens
over 200-foot bank on Pacific
highway over Blsklyous.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
fimudaa Pot" column: "Stove
rationing will start Aug. 1. H
has not been admitted the
stove shortage is due to ship
ping too msny stove legs to
Japan as scrap Iron.
30 YEARS AGO
June II, 1133 (Trlday)
Fifteen Army planes join in
search for plane lost in Cas
cade mountains on flight from
Medford.
Jackaon county judge fur
ther implicated in ballot
thefts by witnesses In second
trial. ,
40 YEARS AGO
June II, 1923 (Saturday)
Attorney Frank DeSouza
temporarily assumes duties of
district attorney due to illness
ot Rswles Moore.
Oregon Ku Klux Klan re
portedly ready to start recall
movement against Gov. Wal
ter Pierce.
80 YEARS AGO
June II, 1113 (Monday)
New law cancels all voter
registrations In Jackson covin
ty, residents must register to
vote or sign petitions.
Automobiles line up on both
sides ot street for more than
a block as local residents turn
out in downpour of rain to
see vaudeville show at Page
theater.
The favorite, most popular family outdoor
activity of all is just plain driving around in a car.
There are many spectacular scenic drives in
southern Oregon, and they do not end with Li a
ter Lake or the Ashland Loon road.
It may be to the top of Mt. Ashland, or to
Tallowbox lookout, or up Anderson Butte. Per
haps it is up the Applegate or Little Applegate
valley. It may be a loop trip to Crater Lake, down
the west bank of Klamath lake, and back by
Lake of the Woods and the Dead Indian. They
all are enjoyable
ASIDE from driving around, surveys indicate
"that picnicking is the most popular form of
outdoor family activity. Southern Oregon is rich
in picnic spots from Tubb Springs Wayside
on the Green Springs highway, to the state parks
at Valley of the Kogue, Touvelle, Mct-eod, uasey
and Laurelhurst.
For the sliirhtlv moro adventurous, there are
31 forest camps in the Rogue River National
Forest, plus several county parks, plus other spots
sucn as fcicieroerry nat campground, main
tained by the BLM in the Evans creek country,
or simple open glades where one can spread a
blanket, eat lunch, and count tne ants.
One of the most charming of all picnic spots
hereabouts, one easily reached and beautiful, is
outstanding Lithia park, .where one may either
eat at tables, or on the greensward.
FROM picnicking to camping is an easy transi
tion. Much the same geographical informa
tion is identical, for in most of the good picnic
spots, camping is also available.
li tne tourists wno seen your actvice are in
a camper or are dragging a trailer, you can as
sume that they know the ropes, and are simply
seeking help in finding a spot. The tent camper
is a. bit ruggeder breed, and if he is dirty, un
shaven, sunburned and happy, you can likewise
assume he knows what he is doing. But beware
the tenderfoot on his first camping trip. You'd
better also give him the name of a good motel to
which he can retreat in case of rain.
Camping in a state park is, at worst, semi
civilized. Most of them have flush toilets, hot
and cold running water, and daily newspapers.
National Forest camps are a bit more primitive,
but usually there is a rudimentary sanitary fa
cility, and water is almost always available.
the back-
amen-
itieB, and you don't have to worry about him,
either, for he knows his business well.
He will know where he is going and how to
get there. Most of them will be heading for our
two wild or primitive areas, Sky Lakes, between
Mt. McLoughhn and Crater Lake, and Mountain
Lakes, southeast of Lake of the Woods.
Those seeking information about horse-pack
ing trips can be referred to Clyde Wilhelm, who
has a string of horses with headquarters at Lake
of the Woods. This summer he also has an oper
ation at Howard Prairie, and information, rates
and advice are available.
BOATING whether it be in an inflatable rub
Vi.ni lo Tf ft i q M l nViria A mM licni olnoni nr civ
uvi ioiv vi an uiuuniu vi uioci oittpm o. -
is the most rapidly growing of all outdoor recrea
tion. The practitioners may be after fishing, or
water skiing, or sailing, or just roaming.
Howard frame is probably the best all
around, all-purpose lake in the area. It is large
enough to accommodate skiers and sailboats, as
well as fishermen although you may be sure
there is no great love lost amonc the three groups.
Lake of the Woods is also multi-purpose, but
Fish, Fourmile, Willow and Hyatt lakes are pri
marily for fishing. Emigrant lake is principally
tor skiing and boating, though there is some fish
ing there. Savage Rapids reservoir is principally
for active water sports. Squaw lakes are pri
marily for fishing, but the swimming is good.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph AUop
(CI Nw York Herald Tribune SynrHcif
fNLY the ruggedest type of camper, the
packer, need go without any of these
Whit's Yoir I.Q.7
Nine at tan correal h tuaerler;
aaaa a alaM t eitallenti Hva at
ais h f4.
1. What sort of brlds saved
the pioneers of Utah from
the ravages ot the grasshop
pers? 2. A horse which is entered
and then withdrawn from a
race Is said to be s
3. What is the leading Bra
zilian export?
4. Nam th CI A. chief.
5. Complete the saying,
The hand that rocks the
cradls ..."
6. A section of land is how
many square miles?
7. What if. the capital of
Maine?
S. Does sound travel lamer
In water, or in air?
9. Is it true, or untrue, that
rifle bullet will not pene
trate an alligator's hide?
10. An atom of uranium has
a diameter of one-hundredth,
one-millionth, or cne-hundred-milliontb
ot an inch?
Answersi 1. Sea ' lulls. 2.
2. Scratched. 3. Coflee. 4.
John A. McCone. S. ". . . rules
of the world." I. One square
mile. 7. Augusta. I. In water.
I. Untrue. 10. One hundred
mtllioaik.
THE Rogue itself is highly popular among boat-
ing fishermen, and there are several public
launching ramps upriver. But those boating on
the Rogue should either be experienced boatmen,
or should employ a guide particularly on the
lower Rogue, where the trip from Grants Pass
downstream is justly famous, but hazardous.
- Swimming is available at a number of loca
tions, but some are better than others, due to
dangers, or muddy water, or cold water.
Other forms of outdoor recreation in which
the whole family can join include rock-hounding,
birdwatching and wiulflower hunting. Since so
much of the choice recreational area in south
ern Oregon lies in the National Forests, questions
about these can perhaps best be referred to the
forest headquarters or a ranger station.
A GOOD tourist host should be fairly well ac
"quainted with his own area know where the
campsites are, where the lakes are and what their
particular attractions may be, where to advise
a view-seeking visitor to drive.
Lacking the opportunity for personal famili
aricty, a good host should equip himself with
the reference resources maps, directories, in
formation booklets, and the wide variety of other
literature which is available to be able to an
swer questions about our outdoora.
It we are all acquainted with the great wealth
of outdoor resources for fun with which we are
blessed in southern Oregon, we can be far more
effective hosts to the visitors who help keep
Oregon green with money. E.A.
'THE OTHER AMERICA"
Washington.-On the day the
good news came in from Ala
bama, the tickers also carried
reports of the
assassination
of a. M i s s i s
s I p p i Negro
leader, of men
wounded in
race riots in
C a mbridge,
Md and of
the Rev. Mar
tin Luther
Aimp Kings deci
sion to organize mass sit-In
demonstrations in Washington,
In other words, the racial
crisis is not subsiding, even
though a grave challenge in
Alabama was successfully
handled by the careful fore-
ight and cool judgment of
the Justice Department. In
deed, the crisis is moving into
new phase, as the projected
Washington sit-ins clearly
indicate.
Washington, it must be re
membered, has not been a
segregated city in the South
ern sense for a very long time.
But in Washington, as in the
Northern cities, the great ma
jority of the Negro popula
tion Is to be found in a scries
of Negro ghettos.
MOST OF THE Washington
ill Negroes belong to what
the Catholic sociologist, Mich
ael Harrington, has called
"The Oilier America," in his
indignant and deeply disturb
ing study of poverty in the
United States. In other words.
they are trapped in poverty,
which IS "the other Amer
ica," because they have not
the educational and other
equipment needed to esenpe
Into Prof. Galbraith's "afflu
ent society."
If so many of the Wash
ington Negroes were not
trapped in this "other Amer
ica ' from which most of us
prefer to avert our eye3, they
would be less ready to demon
strate with Martin Luther
King. But their emotions, un
dcrstandiiblc as they may be,
are only one aspect of the
matter.
The social and political
aspects are Just as important
as the emotional aspect. It is
downright frightening, for In
stance, that the level of job
lessness among Negro youths
of working age In many dis
tricts of Philadelphia has now
risen above 77 per cent.
'THE YOUNGPEOPLE,
. many of them school
drop-outs without the training
tor skilled Jobs, clearly const!'
tute the worst part of the
problem. If they arc simply
left to rot, with more than
seven in every ten unem
ployed in cities like Phila
delphia, then the gravest re
sults of all sorts must be ex
pected - in crime rates, in
political tendencies, in de
teriorating social patterns.
But the young people are
by no means the whole prob
lem. It Is also downright
frightening, for example, that
In the huge Negro population
of Chicago, no less than 17.8
per cent of those who want
work are now unable to find
Jobs.
That means that, tor the
Chicago Negroes, the Job
situation today is worse than
ihe worsi this country expe
rienced In the bitter depths
of the great depression. Any
one of an age to rememb-r
what 16 per cent of unemploy
ment was like in 1932 will
feel his stomach turn at the
grim meaning of this Chicago
figure.
Hence assurance to all ot
equal rights under the Con
stitution, without regard to
creed or color, is only the
first part of the task ahead
Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy has said: "For practical
purposes, the education bill
and the tax bill, which will
create jobs, are even more im
portant." The Administration's policy
makers are also Increasingly
convinced that the attack on
the race problem needs a
third prong. In other words,
in addition to insuring civil
rights and creating more jobs,
an emergency effort must also
be made to assist escape from
their trap by all the inhabi
tants of "the other America,"
who Include the populations
of very depressed industrial
and mining areas, as well as
the Negro population.
SUCH AN EFFORT would
reauire a nrnffrum mm.
bining several different activ
ities. One line of action is rep
resented by the Youth Oppor
tunity Bill, providing for a
CCC-llke program for jobless
youths,
A broad vocational training
program for school drop-outs,
a body like the Peace Corps
to work In the ghettos and
other underprivileged areas, a
more energetic attack on Juve
nile delinquency, a program
to retrain men whose jobs
have been lost by automation
-all these are also needed.
All these things have been
proposed already. But the
proposals need to be strength
ened and the whole needs to
be combined into one broad
effort, imbued with the sense
of urgency the crisis imposes.
Today & Tomorrow
In
y Walter Uppmann
ISM Tha Washington Port
In the Day's News
r FRANK JENKINS
THE PRESIDENT AND
THE COLD WAR
The Presidents announce
ment at American University
of a meeting in Moscow to
discuss a nu
clear test ban
seems to have
been inserted
only recently
in an address
w h i ch has,
quite evident-
lv hj,n ma.
turing for a
I -Carnal lnn0 HmA In
Lippmaiia his mind. The
President must have decided
quite some time ago that it
would be useful to make a
fresh statement of how the
United States Is now thinking
and feeling about its relations
with the Soviet Union.
For while there has not
been, as the President said,
any change in the American
resistance to an expansion of
communism, there have been
changes in the American esti
mate of developments in the
Soviet Union and In the Com
munist world. Yet most of the
language of the cold war has
remained unchanged, has be
come stereotyped and official
and popular reactions to news
from the east have become
mechanical.
We on our part and the
Russians on their part have
raised higher than the iron
curtain an impenetrable fog
of suspicion. This shuts off
any serious effort to use a
diplomacy which is adjusted
to the great changes on both
sides of the iron curtain.
THE President's address is
more than a talk. It is a
wise and shrewd action which
is intended primarily to Im
prove the climate of East
West relations. He is. I be
lieve, moving with the on
coming tide in human affairs.
The tide is bringing in a gen
eration which is losing inter
est in the post war conflict
between the crusading Com
munists and the crusading
anti-Communists who reacted
to them.
For Kennedy and for
Khrushchev, the notion that
either of the two rival nu
clear powers can bury the
other has become nonsensical.
All that is left of the old slo
gans are the tired old words
themselves. In the age o: nu
clear parity, there is no alter
native to co-existence.
some distance away, pumped
up the water and carried it
back to the kitchen.
AS OF NOW. moreover, the
position is due to get
worse rather than better, The
unskilled jobs are the jobs
which are getting scarcer and
scarcer. The new Jobs that
are being created by the U. S
economy almost invariab'y
demanded advanced skills.
These are the skills which the
educationally underprivileged
Negroes tend not to possess.
At a breakfast meetins in
Washington the other day
with about 160 GOP congress
men, former President Eisen
hower offered this opinion:
"Anybody who would spend
$40 billion dollars in a race
to the moon tor national pres
tige is NUTS."
He drew sustained applause
from the congressmen present
at the breaktast. There was
no report, at the moment, from
out in the sticks. But most of
us have confidence enough in
the common sense of the aver
age American to believe that
a lot of taxpayers patted their
hands together in enthusiastic
applause and let go with the
equivalent of BRaVOI
Prestige is a wonderful
thing, but the average citizen
can't pay his taxes with it.
IH'EN the scientists are not
" In complete agreement
with the present fantastically
costly space program.
Al a panel discussion in
Washington the other day. Dr.
Polykarp Kusch, head of the
Columbia -university physics
department, who shared the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955
said flatly he could think of
many great national needs
that far outweigh the needs
tor space exploration on the
"urgent schedule now accord
ed it."
In the course of the panel
discussions. Dr. Philip Abel
son, who participated in the
production of the first atom
bomb, protested that manned
space flight, partcularly to the
moon, has been getting over
emphasis. ll'HEN our great-grandpar-
ents wanted to go down
town to do their shopping,
they had to go out to the barn,
harness the horse, hitch It to
the buggy, drive slowly to the
business district, find a hitch
ing post, do their shopping,
drive home, unhitch the horse,
put it In the barn and unhar
ness it.
When they needed water,
they picked up a bucket and
went to tht well, which was
rpO DO their cooking, they
built a fire in the range,
going out to the wood house
for their fuel. When washday
came, they did their washing
on a board and carried it out
in the back yard and hung It
on the line.
When they wanted fried
chicken, they ran the chicken
down, scalded it in hot water,
plucked off the feathers, cut
it up and fried it on the hot
stove.
And so on.
It all took a lot of time.
In effect, the President has
said to Khruhchev that since,
in the nuclear age, we have
to co-exist, crusading which
might involve armed violence
must be abandoned. It both
powers are to live, they will
have to learn to let live. The
President's way of stating
these governing truths was
admirable. It was not only
lucid and untimorous, but It
was couched in the kind of
language which ought to be
used in talking to and about
the Russians. It was the lan
guage of self-confidence and
self-respect, of resolution and
magnanimity.
a a
FOR the outsider, it is im
possible to make any
judgment now about the
coming conference in Mos
cow. We do not know what
has been passing to and fro
which has persuaded the
three governments that some
thing important might be
achieved by a meeting at a
high level, indeed, just under
the summit.
If, as is conceivable from
the report of Mr. Harold Wil
son's talk with Chairman
Khrushchev, some kind of
partial moratorium may be
negotiable, it would come as
a great relief to the whole
world.
The Soviet view is that
underground testing is of
negligible significance. There
are some American nuclear
scientists, but by no means
all of them, who think the
underground tests can be of
decisive significance. These
underground tests are differ
ent from all other tests not
only because they do not con
taminate the air, but because
they alone cannot always be
detected without on-site in
spection. But the Soviet gov
ernment has a deep hatred of
on-site inspection.
MIGHT it then be possible
to make an agreement to
ban all tests which can be de
tected without on-site inspec
tion, and then to permit a lim
ited number of underground
tests which the Soviet govern
ment does not take too seri
ously?
This may be a pipe dream.
Indeed, I do not dare to be
lieve In it, because it seems
too good to be true and be
cause It Is too sensible to be
practical.
We have all noticed that
Mr. Khrushchev has set the
date o the meeting for July.
That will be after the Sino
Soviet talks have taken place.
We can make a guess about
the meaning of this, and we
BUT
Back in those days, every
body had lenty of leisure.
Now NOBODY HAS ANY
TIME.
AND-
Back in those days, a trip
over into the next county to
visit Aunt Hattie was a big
event. Now we're all talking
about going to the moon.
It's a strange world we re
living in.
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Twister
To the Editor: Referring to
your "twister," if the meas
urements are correct then, as
I have it figured, the answer
will - be 5,541.25 inches or
461.77 feel.
Of course, actually the cor
rect term used should be how
far the record grooves travel
against the needle, but the
way you give it is more sim
ple. Earl R. Miller
Route 1, Box 570
Central Point, Ore.
WELL KNOWN FACTS
ABOUT LITTLE KNOWN
PEOPLE
Dale Carnegie, who made
a fortune influencing other
people to influence other peo
ple, once wrote a book titled,
"Little Known Facts About
Well Known People."
The chances are that you
have forgotten the book so
we'll just refresh your mem
ory with a few high lights.
For instance, Abraham Lin
coln's Dog was an ardent seg
regationalist and bit the presi
dent soundly on the leg at
the signing of the Emancipa
tion Proclamation.
Betsy Ross was color blind
and thought she was putting
together a green, yellow and
purple flag. Teddy Roosevelt
pushed his horse all the way
to the top of San Juan Hill
because the horse was chick
en and'wanted to wait at the
bottom until the rest of the
guys got back.
33
By coincidence, Christo
pher Columbus was born on
Columbus Day and always
received time and a half
when he worked on that day.
Davy Crockett never did real
ly wear a coonskin hat but
he did have the nuttiest hair
cut in Kentucky.
Eli Whitney invented a ma
chine for extracting the juice
from cotton from which he
made gin from which he made
very dry martinis. Luther
Burbank crossed a pussywil
low with a dogwood tree and
got nothing but bitten and
scratched for his efforts. Babe
Ruth once pointed at the cen-
can make several guesses.
For example, if Mr. K has
appeased the Chinese in order
to heal a little bit the rift in
the Communist movement,
he could balance it by appeas
ing the United States a little
bit. Or, if Mr. K has a still
bigger quarrel with the Chi
nese, the time will have
come nearer as almost cer
tainly it is coming someday
when the Russians will ful
fill General De Gaulle's
prophecy by re-entering Eu
rope and the West to which
they belong.
terfield and then flied out
to s shortstop who had never
caught a baseball before in his
life.
Napoleon was a hypochon
driac and always kept his
hand inside of his shirt to
see if his heart was still beat
ing. William Shakespeare re
fused to go to movies be-'
cause he was afraid that they
might be a bad influence on
his writing.
Naval hero Admiral Lord
Nelson always looked lumpy
in his uniform because he
never went anyplace without
his life-preserver. Louisa May
Alcott, who wrote "Littls
Women", collected midgets.
Whistler's mother had no
children. Alexander Graham
Bell invented the telephone
when the local utility com
pany cut off his carrier
pigeons for non-payment of
his monthly bill.
Jim Thorpe, reputedly tha
world's greatest drop kicker,
once kicked his coach clear
over the fence when he be
came angry because the coach
asked him to wear shoes on
the gridiron. Mohandas Gan
dhi was the nice kind of a
guy who'd give you the sheet
off of his back.
Bela Lugosi, who portray
ed Dracula on the screen, was
really a fun loving person
who was very kind to his
bats. Sigmund Freud once psy
choanalyzed his high strung
cat and found that the cat
had an understandable fear
of violins.
Robinson Crusoe tried to
sell his life story to Satur
day Evening Post but it wa.
rejected for the lack of any
love interest. (He later re
wrote it changing his man
Friday to Tuesday Weld but
it still didn't sell.)
The Duke of Windsor do
nates his weekly unemploy
ment checks to a charity.. Ni
kita Khrushchev is pleased
as punch when he is mistaken
for Yul Brynner. Edsel cars
are now bringing as high as
$7500 in the collector's market.
lifl!8ei4IW,lMtiS Tints.
"Another demonstration! Listen, if I had wanted some
one with such a burning social conseiance, I'd hava
married Albert Schweitiar!"
Negroes Revolt Against 'Non-Existence'
r ri
es longer
Sh I licves that
ill laws will
I Jaaasl enforced
By LttIC SEVAREID
However painful this is for
most ot us, the plain truth of
the Negro revolt is that the
American Ne-
- -.
g Kro n a s, ai
4 1 O n g, long
last, lost taitn
tz I in tne wnue
J' V 1 man and his
soriptv. Hr no
be-
that the
ill be
un-
Sevarel css nCi hlm.
self, forces their enforcement.
This is what the most patient
and enduring of American
races has come to, and we
who are while have no one to
blame but ourselves. There is
no place to hide, anymore.
But there is a second barrel
to this weapon pointed at the
dominant white culture in our
country. With the end of Ne
gro faith in the white Ameri
can has come the beginnings
of the Negro's faith in him
self. Respect from others de
nied, he had nowhere to go
to find it save in a self-generated
self-respect. He could not
find It from the passive moral
and Intellectual assurances of
religion, or science and logic;
he could find it only In action
-an old precept of psychiatry,
but an extraordinarily diffi
cult bootstrap operation, for
an individual or a group.
It should go without saying
tion occurs in the individual
breasts and the collective
ranks of the most cohesive
voting and acting bloc in
America, almost anything can
happen. There are likely to
be both events and remarks
of a brutish as well as of a
noble nature, and one is
tempted to think that politi
cal alisnments will never be
quite the same again.
The Negro vote has been an
indispensable political sword
in the hands of the Democrat
ic party for 30 years. But no
"white power structure"' owns
this sword anymore, and it
could be very quickly turned
against the vitals of that par
ty and this President, who
merely inherited this upheav
al, as President Hoover inher
ited the depression of the late
twenties.
If the generality of Ameri
can Negroes have now lost
faith in the good intentions of
white Americans, educated
Negroes long since lost faith
in the practical common sense
of white Americans. They are
aware, by the hard atatistics,
that for a supposedly materi
alist society, we are stupefying
ly wasteful ot our materials.
Here we are-exhorting, plan
ning, wracking our brains for
ways and means of getting the
country moving, economical-ly-while
right to hand lies
the most certain, if not the
fastest, remedy of all.
That is to allow 19 million
that when such transforms-1 Negroes to fully Join the
American common market. It
would be like adding a whole
nation of producers and con
sumers to increase our com
mon wealth. As Harry Golden
has recently put it, this would
not only mean the lifting of a
great burden from the white
man, but it would mean "a
boom so charismatic that the
white Southerner will one
day wonder what his resist
ance was all about."
If Negroes were employed
to the same degree as whites
and paid as much (right now,
both gaps are widening, not
narrowing) the economic turn
over in this country would
increase by a mammoth $12
to $14 billion a year. And that
figure represents only about
one-half the price we now pay
for maintaining a Negro sub
culture within the general
culture. For we must also pay,
in billions, for swollen forces,
for ever - increasing charity
medicine, children's homes,
pensl institutions, unemploy
ment compensstion and
straight relief checks, an im
mense portion of which is di
rectly due to the stupidity of
trying to keep the Negro "in
his place"-that is. semi-lllit-
erste and unskilled.
The full and equal educa
tion of American Negroes Is
not only a moral but a prac
tical necessity: not an act of
charity toward others but of
enlightened self-interest. I be
lieve it to be far mors certain
of results than the spending"
of billions for the advance
ment of people in various for
eign countries.
Education is the key. As
the President said in San Di
ego, less than one-half of the-non-white
population of this
country has finished high:
school. In actual numbers,
this proportion of the unskill
ed increases every year,
while the actual numbers of
unskilled Jobs decreases every,
year as automation spreads
and we become more and
more a white-collar nation. '
It takes no brains to see
that unless we quickly get
about the business of educat
ing every child capable of it
and training or re-training ev-.
ery adult now devoid of usa
ble skills, the problem will!
get beyond us. We shall then"
have to carry a permanent'
albatross of many millions ot
unemployable human beings.
Tax loads will only get hesv:
ier, bureaucracies thicker; po- -lice
forces will multiply be-,
cause crime will become a
normal, not an abnormal way
of life.
a a a
In this 20th century, the"
uneducated man is not a man.
He does not quite exist. In its
deep-seated, visceral motiva
tions, the Negro revolt is, in
part, a desperate spasm of re
action against non-existence.
(Distributed 1963. by Tha
Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights RMtrvtd) .