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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 31. 1953 (Friday)
Numerous state and coun
ty officials are scheduled to
take part Saturday evening In
dedication ceremonies for
KBES-TV, first television sta
tion In southern Oregon.
Miss Elaine Sorum, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Sorum, 1116 Dakota st. Mcd
ford, named queen of the
1953 Jacksonville Jubilee.
20 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1943 (Saturday)
- Ma). Gen. William G. Live
say takes command of 91st In
fantry division In ceremony
at Cbitid White.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
SmtiHtrp Pot" column: "Sev
eral fathers report they have
been fooling their kids by of
fering them the new pennies
for dimes ana, in many in
stances, they were dimes."
30 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1933 (Monday)
Bonds for new sewer sys
tem nppri ved by voters at
special clci in.
Slab woou shortage faces
city.
40 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1923 (Tuesday)
Six cars of pears shipped
east.
Survey of highway from
Merlin to Port Orford down
Rogue River asked.
50 YEARS AGO
July 31. 1913 (Thursday)
Southern Pacific offers low
excursion fares to Colestin,
with music by Central Point
bund.
Local temperature 81 de
grees as heat wave leaves
many dead in nation.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superler;
seven er eight is excellent; live er
sis is load.
1. Who proposed the Eu
ropean Recovery Plan?
2. Is a picaroon a type of
cookie, horse, or thief?
3. The U. S. Supreme
Court never renders advisory
opinions; true or false?
4. What government ageiv
cy Issues copyright certifi
cates? 5. In which year did the
Boxer Rebellion occur?
6. Name the painter noted
for his famous "Blue Boy."
7. In which Government
agency Is the Bu.-eau of Cen
sus? 8. Name the capital of Hai
ti. 9. A "southpaw" throws
balls with which arm?
10. Would a fatuous person
be a stout person, or a fool
ish person?
Answers! 1, George C. Mar
shall. 2. Thiel. 3. True. 4. Li
brary of Congress, 5. 1900.
6. Thomas Gainsborough 7
Department of Commerce. I
Port-au-Prince. 9. Left. 10.
Foolish person.
LOTS OF PRACTICE
London - tl'Pl) - Joanna Al
nln, the 22-year-old daughter
of Paramount Chief Nana
Fosu Gyabour II of Ghana,
has won a place In an ex
clusive London drama school
but is not worried about stage
fright.
"My father practices polyg
amy and with so many broth
erg and sisters we have to
compete to get any notice
taken of us at all," she said
Tuesday.
VjjjiA'MOCIATION
WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1963
Treaties And the Senate
"A treaty entering the Senate," a harassed
Secretary of State once declared, "is like a bull
going into the arena. No one can say just how
or when the final blow will fall. But one thing
is certain it will never leave the arena alive."
That's why the Kennedy Administration has
been sounding out key members of Congress, par
ticularly members of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions and Armed Services committees and the
Joint Atomic Energy Committee.
Primary iurisdiction for an atomic test ban
treaty of course lies with
Committee, which was shown a dealt treaty on
July 23.
CECRETARY of State Dean Rusk a day earlier
J had been reported considering going to the
signing ceremony in Moscow accompanied by a
bipartisan delegation from Congress. By so doing
he would avoid at least partially one of the mis
takes made by President Wilson in 1918.
-As Prof. George H. Haynes has pointed out:
"As a publicist Woodrow Wilson had again and
again emphasized the desirability of the close
and sympathetic cooperation between the Presi
dent and the Senate in treaty-making, and had
stressed the President's opportunity and duty to
take the initiative in promoting intimate rela
tions of mutual confidence.
"But at the close of the World War not only
did he not place Senators as such liaison officers
upon the commission which he took with him to
Paris, but he consented to, if he did not personally
instigate, an interweaving of the Treaty and
Covenant of the League (of Nations), which he
had every reason to know would be obnoxious
to a majority of the Foreign Relations Commit
tee and to a portion of the Senate large enough
to reject the Treaty."
PRESIDENT Truman avoided a repetition of
tha first of Wilsnn's orrni's in 1 Sfi4 hv nnnnint-
iner to the U.S. delegation
Nations Charter Sen. Tom
chairman of the P'oreign
and his Republican opposite number, Arthur H.
Vandenberg (Mich.).
The clause of the Constitution which regu
lates the making of treaties provides simply that
the President "shall have power, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, to make
treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators pres
ent concur.
This treaty-making
to President Wilson that
power."
AN ominous note was sounded on July 23 by
Sonata Minnritv I .piirlpi Kvprptt. Dirkspn CTll.V
who said he would "guess a good many reserva
tions would be presented on the Senate floor
to a test ban treaty.
In neither of the other nations parties to the
treaty will it have to be
for ratification. Indeed, the restraints on a U.S.
President's treaty power are virtually unique.
One may hope Ray. Stannard Baker was not
prophetic when he wrote more than 40 years ago:
r --'I'nr t Doiwccn me txecuuve ana me acn
ate every time we face a really critical foreign problm
i. .i.j.v.uoic. it not only disgraces us before the
nations, but in some future world crisis may ruin us.
E.R.R.
NATO's Tank Troubles
At the outset of the fighting in Korea in 1950,
the United States had no
capable of engaging the obsolescent Russian T-34.
South Korean units, in
any description because
determined to show the
in Korea were nonaggressive.
The heavily-armored
rean invaders smashed through the ROK lines.
Soon what the Germans call "panzer fever"
seized the defenders. Whatever chance the nu
merically superior ROK
the invasion without help
was ended.
Armor could hardly
European ground war. Even so, more than usual
significance attaches to
of tanks by I1 ranee and Germany. I1 lve years ago,
the two nations joined to develop a "Europa"
tank capable of facing the Russian T-54.
Experts from each country worked on their
own models separately. But when the time came
to combine the best features of the two, the dis
agreement on its specifications became irrecon
cilable. France recently displayed its model, call
ed the AMX, a 32.5-ton model capable of 43
mile-an-hour speed.
MOW the Germans are preparing to unveil,
probably early in August, their 40-ton, 40-mile-an-hour
model, called the Standard Panzer.
Bonn is expected to put the tank into production
no later than September. German industrialists
are happy at the prospect of a $500 million order
necessary to replace, at $250,000 apiece, the 2,000
outmoded U.S.-made M-47s and M-4Ss the Ger
mans now have.
Meanwhile, the United States is in the process
of equipping its forces in Europe with the 50-ton
M-60 tank. But the New York Herald Tribune
directs attention to reports that West Germany
may provide the United States with Standard
Panzers to be turned over to other NATO allies.
Almost lost in the turmoil over Franco-German
manufacturing rivalries and the possible impact
of the tank competition on U.S. balance of pay
ments is the question of which tank of the three
is best capable of halting Communist armor.
-E.R.R.
the Foreign Relations
to draw up the United
Connally, the powerful
Relations Committee,
power of the Senate was
body's "treaty-marring
presented to a legislature
tank in the Far East
fact, had no tanks of
the United States was
world that its intentions
fist of the North Ko
army had of handling
from American troops
prove decisive in any
the current development
f
I I SENATE II
I U K0OM
"I love attending committee hearings in the summer.
It's hot. tempers flare, there's a healed exchange and
then there's a beautiful 'cop-out' when explanations
arn model"
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paper. In fact the contrary is often the case.
Meat of Protest
To the Editor: Raise your
wig to cool off, here it comes.
I would like to find out
Just "what are you trying to
prove," about Zlppo, Bimbo
and Mumbo Jumbo?
Have you good reason for
panning the local PO depart
ment or are you just having
"thum fun" with words when
you have nothing better to
do or write about.
The PO can be wrong in
trying to improve service
since they have been 25 years
behind the times machine
wise and will be for several
years more to come, so please
be a little bit tolerant of their
mistakes until the new sys
tem is Ingrained Just a little
bit willya huh?
The Medford PO has no
"in-scrvlce" training program
so all schemes, new systems
and changes must be learned
on an employee's own time
with no pay.
To learn the distribution
scheme for Medford and the
surrounding area takes hun
dreds of hours of memorizing
and to "case" for the pro
ficiency exam is really some
thing. So let's give the employees
a faint bit of praise for in
telligence enough to mem
orize 40,000 names and 15
thousand places as well as
a couple of thousand streets,
alleys, and unlabeled country
roads and unfindabie hidden
lanes to which mall has to
be delivered after It is cased.
Your ribbing and needling
is unkind and the PO em
ployees feci it. The unkindest
thrust of all was the inclu
sion that the employees were
discourteous to people calling
about the ZIP numbers. You
could have deleted that refer
ence and been on safe ground
because I bet you that none
of them are ever anything but
courteous under any circum
stance. Now let's get down to the
meat of this protest which is
to discuss errors, inefficien
cies, deletions, mlspclllngs,
proof reading, headlines, de
liveries and all the things
that concern the M-T you
head up as managing editor.
Are all these things at all
limes as they should be or
should many of us readers loll
you of the shortcomings? If
you can answer in the affir
mative then you had a very
good right to use your sling
shot to throw that stone.
Please have RLH of 5701
tell you If he ever had mis
directed mail prior to ZIP
numbers. If he did have, then
some today isn't unusual is It?
K. C. (Swede) Wern-
mark
2.12 West Fifth st.
Medford, Ore.
Ten Remarkable Books
To the Editor: The late Dr.
Gerald B. Winrod, the former
publisher of The Defender
Magazine of Wichita, Nans.
was also the author of ten
remarkable books, shedding
light on the devastating
atomic bomb.
A prelude to I hp discovery
of the death dealing force
Mr. Winrod, in a prophetical
lecture In Austin, Minn., fore
told the splitting of the atom;
that was on Nov. 18. 1024.
nearly 21 years before the as
sembly and actually was man
ifested in war time and first
used in August, 1945.
In a 78-page paper-bound
book is a controversial sub
ject called "Anti-Christ and
the Atomic Boom " Once you
start to read this revealing
book, you will also want to
read more of the same auth
or's other books, especially
one entitled, "The Great Re
ligions of the World."
Only on rare Instances do
books like that become avail
able, as when the need arises.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
the wants are supplied. The
author was a profound schol
ar of ancient history.
Bert Kissinger
322 South Riverside
, - ave.
Medford '
Look for Spots '
To the Editor: The new free
way between Medford and
Ashland ain't been finished a
week and already the highway
crews wuz looking for some
good spots to chop holes in
the pavement.
Everett Aeklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Take Lonely Road
To the Editor: The biogra
phy of Friedrich Wletzsche re
veals that this lonely philoso
pher went mad In 1889-at the
age of 45.
I am thinking of another
philosopher, of ancient times,
known to us through the writ
ings of followers of a later
generation, who also went
mad about the same age,
whose teaching Nietzsche crit
icized severely, and whose
malady Ralph Waldo Emerson
called "The True Madness." I
am speaking, of course, if my
deductions are correct, of the
founder of laissez-faire democ
racy on the one hand, and
Christianity on the other. The
one is the philosophy of
strength, the other the philos
ophy of weakness. The one ex
alts the "will to power," the
other negates life altogether
and exalts the "spirit-imprisoned"
(consciousness or fixed
Idea). The founder of Christianity
went mad at a tin.e when being
mad meant that one was "pos
sessed" either by God or the
Opposite. It is no wonder then
he came to be worshipped as
"The God" in after genera
tions, and especially since he
was martyred while In that
mad state (his "mission" on
earth) by his enemies, his
countrymen the Jews, because
of his blasphemy and unpatri
otism, who have ever after
ward regarded him as "The
Devil."
Although a n 1 1 Christian,
Nietzsche was not anti-Semitic,
as all honest Christians
have been till this present
day; his friend the musician
Richard Wagner, who was his
elder, was so. Wagner was, of
course, to become the idol of
Adolph Hitler, the half-Jew
who was the arch-master of
anti-Semitism.
The exceedingly vain Wag
ner broke with Nietzsche over
supcrnationalism o f Prussia
and anti-Semitism, which the
philosopher regarded as a cul
tural menace-thus It is re
markable how Nietzsche also
became the idol of the swash
buckling, short -lived Nazi
State. Culturally speaking, the
Nazis became the allies of the
Christians and the Democra-cies-which
makes good sense,
as they styled themselves the
"Third Roman Empire."
But the p n 1 1 o s o p h y of
strength which Nietzsche es
poused was as much the
strength of the mind as of the
body-and the Jews were ever
free thinkers, always eschew
ed "book-burning" in which
activity both Nazis and Chris
tians have indulged.
Slgmund Freud also went
i mad, it is recalled, late in his
life, even though he was him
self a master-doctor of mental
Ill-health, and It is of inter
est to note how many of the
greatest minds have lost their
way after taking the lonely
road among the gods over
head. Ralph McKinnis,
P. O. Box 321,
Ashland, Ore.
Question
Bound by
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
The red hot question about
the test ban is not whether
such an agreement is urgent
ly desirable now but whether
the Soviet
I Union can be
k ' 1 bound to a
test ban that
would reason-
'-2 ablv and orop-
S e r ly protect
U.S. interests.
The U. S. in
terest is the
interest of the
Wilson men, women
and children of the United
States to live their lives equal
ly safe from nuclear holocaust
and crippling fall out. Nobody
could be against that.
It seems, however, that to
question even gently whether
the proposed test ban proper
ly protects U. S. interests is
a shady business. To so ques
tion is like questioning the
sanctity of motherhood, the
worth of libraries, the merit
of good works. To question
instead of to cheer is almost
to endorse sin. The questions
are beginning to come, how
ever, and some of them will
have to be answered.
The U. S. Senate is build
ing up to the kind of donny
brook that accompanied the
consideration nearly 45 years
n ' hi
I VA
LfJ
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(c) 1963, The
THE FIRST STEP AND
THE SECOND
While the firs'; step does
not take Us all the way or in
deed very far, it is crucial.
For it shows
which way we
have decided
to go. And so,
while it is
quite true
that the poli
tical test ban
does not mean
that there is
peace and no
Upomann further dan
ger of war, it does mean that
the two great nuclear powers
have agreed that neither will
go all out in the effort to
achieve absolute nuclear su
periority and with it total
world supremacy.
This agreement does not
end the race of armaments.
But it changes radically the
race of armaments - its pur
pose and its pace. As long as
there is no limit on testing,
particularly in the atmo
sphere, there is a high premi
um on the effort to search for
an absolute weapon - say an
anti-missile missile which
could destroy the deterrent of
the adversary or some kind
of super-bomb which, launch
ed without notice, could an
nihilate the adversary.
While the proposed test ban
does not prohibit entirely the
search for the absolute wea
pon, it slows up that search
sufficiently to make it most
impossible that either country
will produce the absolute wea
pon. For while the search can
continue in the laboratories
and underground, there is no
present scientific prospect that
this will produce the absolute
weapon.
CO i'ar - reaching an agree
J mcnt would not have been
arrived at, we must assume, if
both countries had not learn
ed from their experiments
and their studies that even
with unlimited testing in the
atmosphere there was no rea
sonable chance of a break
through to the absolute wea
pon. If there were a good
chance, the prize would be so
dnzzlingly great and the pen
alty so horrible that neither
country would have accepted
the ban because they have
learned that the search Is so
dangerous, so costly and so
useless.
In renouncing the search
for the absolute weapon, the
Soviet Union and the United
States are accepting as un
changeable, but tolerable, the
existance of an effective bat
ance of nuclear forces be
tween them. We are mutually
deterred from striking at each
other, and the nuclear stale
mate prevents cither of us
from demanding an uncondi
tional surrender from the
other. We are compelled to co
exist, however uncomfortably
and unamiably, since neither
of us has absolute power and
both of us would be irrepar
ably hurt if cither of us acted
as If he had absolute power.
AFTER everything useful,
cautionary and prudential
has been said about how this
treaty is only a first step
there is no doubt that it is a
". iiiii"i mm sicp,
What about the second steo?
Here we can move with de-
liberation. For we may re -
mind ourselves that there is
a considerable difference be-,
tween first steps and second i
steps. The first step sets the j
general direction. If hat dt-j
rectum Is west, then the di-.
rectlon is not east, south or!
north. Once the direction has
SswjHfjt
Rises Whether Russia Can Be
Nuclear Test Ban Agreement
ago of the Treaty of Versail
les and the League of Nations.
The Treaty and the League
were defeated. This compari
son does not, however, imply
that the test ban will lose.
Young President Kennedy is
a master politician in contrast
to Woodrow Wilson or almost
anyone you might name. The
test ban will have Kennedy
going for it as well as the
people's prayerful hope that
agreement may be had to end
the nuclear arms race.
The people's prayerful hope
will make it just so much
more difficult for those who
question the test ban to ob
tain popular consideration of
legitimate related questions.
Rep. Craig Hosmer, (R-Calif.)
is a congressional Republican
spokesman on test ban policy.
He has begun to ask some
questions, one of them about
the Soviet Union's good faith.
The Soviets violated a test
moratorium I n September,
1961, having prepared in se
cret for a series of in-the-air
blasts.
On March 2, 1962, Kennedy
announced that the United
States would resume tests.
But there had been no secret
U. S. preparation, therefore
there was a substantial lag
in the U. S. effort to catch up
with the Soviets. Hosmer's
strategy has been to quote
Lippmann
Washincton Post
been set, say in Chicago, to
go west, there are many goals
and paths that can be taken
all in the direction of the
Pacific Ocean.
Khrushchev is asking'
that the second step be a
non - aggression pact. But he
has not made the test ban
conditional upon any specific
non - aggression pact. This
was reassuring, and it was
wise in that it recognizes how
much more important is the
test ban itself than is any
political agreement that could
come after it. For if, as I have
been arguing, the test ban is
a virtual renunciation of the
search for an absolute weapon
and for political supremacy,
then the draft proposal is it
self a great non - agression
pact.
As regards West Germany,
which the Russians fear so
much, Moscow should remem
ber that there has existed for
nearly nine years as complete
a commitment to non - agres
sion as the lawyers could de
vise. Before West Germany
was admitted to NATO, it is
sued a declaration that "the
German Federal Republic un
dertakes never to have re
course to force to achieve the
reunification or the modifica
tion of the present boundaries
of the German Federal Re
public and to resolve by
peaceful means any disputes
which may arise between the
Federal Republic and other
states."
There is no reason why this
same declaration, redrafted to
commit all the NATO states,
should not be made parallel
with a comparable declaration
by the Soviet government
and its European allies.
THE point which troubles
the West Germans is not
that they wish to weaken the
solemn commitment to their
own allies. It is that in some
indirect way the non - agres
sion agreement which Mr. K.
is asking for would, as Dr.
Von Brentano has just put it,
"lead to a freezing of the un
satisfactory political situation
in the world, particularly in
Europe."
In my view, this freezing
will not be prevented by dip
lomatic nit picking about
how much recognition of
East Germany is involved in
every agreement between
Eastern and Western Europe.
The fact is that the partition
of Germany is now frozen and
has been frozen for years, and
the West German rule of re
fusing to accept any measure,
however limited, to increase
Inlprrnnrsi hr-twc..n th iwn
Germany is the reason whv
the West has never had any
policy realistically designed
to unfreeze the partition.
What we should be doing
now. I believe, is to lake a
positive instead of a negative
line. Instead of the nit-picking
to avoid any indirect recogni
tion of the division of Ger
many, we should open up the
lona. difficult, but not neces-
5nrily hopeless, discussion of
' the terms of German rcunifi -
j cation. If the Germans are to
Dccomc reuniiiect, tney are
bound to pay a price for it.
Sometime in the not too de
' tant future there will be Ger-
mans who are more interested
in reunification than in the
small business about the de
gree of diplomatic recogni
tion. Then we shall begin to
find out whether Mr. Khrush
chev will and can prevent the
reunification of Germanv.
from Kennedys March 2
statement:
"We know enough now
about broken negotiations,
secret preparations and the
advantages gained from a long
test series never to offer again
an uninspected moratorium.
Some may urge us to try it
again, keeping our prepara
tions to test in constant readi
ness. But in actual practice,
particularly in a society of
free choice, we cannot keep
top - flight scientists concen
trating on the preparation of
an experiment which may or
may not take place on an un
certain date in the future.
Can't Maintain Alert
"Nor can large technical
laboratories be kept fully
alert on a standby basis wait
ing for some other nation to
break an agreement. This is
not merely difficult or incon
venient. We have explored
this alternative thoroughly
and found it impossible of ex
ecution." The President was question
ed at his Feb., 7 press confer
ence and said:
"We will support an effec
tive treaty which provides for
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Moscow:
A Big Three (U. S., Britain,
Russia) meeting expected to
take place this week in Mos
cow may set the stage for
further moves to ease the cold
war and for a possible summit
conference, according to diplo
matic observers here.
Secretary of State Dean
Rusk will represent the Unit
ed States and British Foreign
Secretary Lord Home will
represent the West at the
meeting called to sign a par
tial nuclear test ban treaty
which was initialed last
Thursday, and has given rise
to outspoken optimism that
a NEW ERA in East-West re
lations may -have opened.
Individual Russians who
come in contact with West
erners are showing great opti
mism that the world may at
last have reached a turning
point after 18 years of cold
war struggle.
SOUNDS wonderful, doesn't
it?
But there's a fly in the oint
ment. The fly is President Charles
de Gaulle of France. As this
is written, he hasn't yet said
yes and he hasn't yet said no.
What he will say is as yet
known only to himself. He
has so far thrown two monkey
wrenches into the machinery
-once when he said NO to
British entry into the Euro
pe a n Common Market and
again when he said NO to the
U. S. offer to provide Polaris
missiles for France if France
would back away from build
ing a nuclear force of her own
and join up with NATO.
He is a strange and mystic
character. No one ever knows
just what he may do next.
Presumably, we shall soon
find out.
INCIDENTALLY . . .
Who knows offhand the
origin of the simile of the
fly in the ointment?
TT IS FROM Eecelsiastes, and
with its context it reads:
"The words of wise men are
heard in quiet more than the
cry of him that ruleth among
fools.
"Wisdom is better than
weapons of war; but one sin
ner destroyeth much good.
"Dead flics cause the oint
ment of the apothecary to
send forth a stinking savor;
so dothe a little folly him that
is in reputation for wisdom
and honor."
AT THIS moment in history,
these words from Eecel
siastes are to be highly recom
mended to President Charles
de Gaulle of France.
Try and Stop Me
Ey BENNETT CERF
A YOUNG Polish lad came over to the U. S. A. in tha
steerage in 1923. Now, forty years later, he was living
in great luxury in Miami Beach. "Only in America could a
thing like this happen,"
he exulted to a new ac-
I quaintancc. "Forty years
ago I didn't have a penny
to my name. Today I'm a
partner of the firm of
Horowitz and McCarthy.
And this is the most
wonderful part of all:
i'm McCarthy!"
Caskie
Stinnett reports
that the
proprietor, of
' hri.rtat n!n .hnn
had a visit recently from a
veiy young doctor, who had
Just hung out his shingle, and who waa In search of a pile of
magazines "at least five years old." Asked if he wanted any par
ticular periodical, the doctor explained, "I Just want something
suitable for my waiting room. Look: if you had Just started prac
lice, would YOU want all your patienta to know It?"
Robert Q. Lewis explained what's eating a frequently sozz;fd
Broadway actor: he has the bourbonic plague. Robert Q. alao te
fines a pessimist as a noodruk who, when opportunity knocks,
complains about the noise.
- o.. c,rt Distribute! by Klnf Tutures Syndicate
effective inspection, but we
cannot take less. It takes
many months to prepare for
tests in the atmosphere. Tha
Soviet Union prepares in sec
ret." Hosmer has suggested an
area for close scrutiny when
the test treaty reaches tha
Senate. Many prayerful advo
cates of a test ban probably
would want the Senate to ex
plore that area thoroughly be
fore giving its advice and con
sent. Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc Field Enterprises, Inc.
THE CHANGING AGE
Just as children are getting
older faster, grown-ups are
staying younger longer. The
age-categories
of even tha
recent past
scarcely apply
f to the present
lime.
I was think
ing this when
reading about
the dispute
between an
Harn airline jom
p a n y and its stewardesses.
The company wanted to, drop
its stewardesses at age 32; the
union protested; and a com
promise of sorts was worked
out.
What interested me was not
the labor aspect of the quar
rel, but the outmoded assump
tion by the airline that 32 is
somehow "old" for a steward
ess. Actually, most women of
32 today look (and presuma
bly feel) 10 years younger.
A generation or so ago, a
woman of 40 had nearly had
it. She was settled into middle-age,
and usually looked it.
Today's women are incredibly
y o u n g in appearance and
vitality-that is, if they aren't
trying too hard to look young.
Nothing ages a woman faster
than that.
Much the same, of course,
is true of men. Men in their
40s and 50s are still young
and vigorous, whereas their
fathers and grandfathers
were often sloping toward
senescence in those decades.
It may have something to
do with diet, with changing
patterns of social life, with
attitudes toward one's self.
Somehow, past generations
became prematurely stodgy:
they not only wore heavier
clothes and ate heavier
meals, but also settled heav
ily into old age long before
it was called for.
If you look at a picture
of a woman of 40 at tha
turn of the century, or even
two decades after that, and
one of today, the difference
is striking - not merely in
the costumes, but in the ex
pression, in the posture, in
the whole psychic atmos
phere. Although it is true that
American civilization today
may put too much emphasis
on "youth" as a virtue, it is
equally true that our ances
tors committed the opposite
mistake - they grew old too
fast, and often passed from
youth to senility without ever
grasping the fact that matur
ity is a time for delight, and
not just for duty.
It is easy to be critical of
our contemporary culture; yet
to remain young in spirit
(without remaining green in
judgment) is surely a positive
value that past generations
neglected or scorned. To see a
woman of 60 striding across
the golf links, lithe and
tanned, is to realize that 32,
in our time, is barely the
threshold of womanhood. No
matter what the airline offi
cials may think to the con
trary. I'M MAC