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Mcdford and Jackson County
History from the tiles ot The
Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6. 1953 (Sunday)
Nearly 90 forest fires were
started by the recent violent
thunderstorm, with storm dam
age to pears scattered. About
$50,000 worth of fruit was lost.
Unemployment in Jackson
county is 45 per cent lower
than a month ago, but double
the total of a year ago.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6. 1943 (Monday)
John Cogswell buys Parker
store at Gold Hill.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Repub-
lican possibilities as presiden
tial nominees in 1944 favor one
term of six years for White
House occupants If they can
get it."
.10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 6. 19.13 (Wednesday)
Auto accident prevention cam
paign launched in state.
Diamond lake mecca for many
over Labor Day week end.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. I, 1923 (Thursday)
Local quota for relief of Japan
quake victims placed at (3,500
by Red Cross.
Jack Dempscy and Angel Fir
po start drills for title bout.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 6. 1913 (Saturday)
Two hundred cars of Bartlett
pears shipped from valley at
fancy prices.
Rogue River harvest festival
said great success.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior;
levan or eight is excellent; five er
lii it food.
1. What island in the Arctic
region is famous for its hot
springs?
2. Who is the dictator of Yugo
slavia? 3. Who succeeded Abraham
Lincoln as president of the U.S.?
4. If you are served cafe nois,
what do you gel?
5. Would a disciple of Izaak
Walton be a billiard player, fish
erman, racketeer, or boxer?
6. A person suffering from an
Ihropophobia has morbid
dread of what?
7. During the Crimean War,
what English woman became fa
mous as a nurse?
8. Edgar Allen Poe attended
what well-known academy?
9. Name the treaty which offi
cially ended World War 1.
10. Complete the saying: "Fa
miliarity breeds "?
Answers: 1. Ireland, t. Mar
shil Tito, 3. Andrew Johnson, 4.
Black coffee. 5. Fisherman. 6.
Of meeting people. 7. Florence
Nightengale. I. West Point, .
Treaty of Versailles. 11). ". .
contempt."
Tn'-Semosfer Plan
Announced at Pacific
Forest Grove Pacific uni
versity will in all probability
adopt tri-semester or some
other type of year-round opera
tion by 1966 or sooner, It was
announced by Dr. M. A. F. Rit
chie, Pacific university prcsi
dent.
Dr. Ritchie made the announ
cement in a statement of edu-
cational objectives to members
of the university faculty.
As outlined by Dr. Ritchie, the
tri-semester program would in
volve three equal semester
periods each year instead of the
traditional fall and spring terms
and short-summer session now
in effect.
4 A
SEPTEMBER 6, 1963
No Excuse
Anolorists for that
youth whose misdeeds
alarm will oe nara to explain away uie iaDor uay
week end noting in Seaside.
It was the second consecutive year that teen
agers in that resort community have Haunted law
enforcement officers and run amock, causing con
siderable damage, to private property and injur
ing several persons.
Using the most charitable construction pos
sible, one might be able to forgive last year's
rioting as a spontaneous eruption in which re
sponsibly for the unfortunate occurrance had
to be shared by the youngsters and the town
fathers of Seaside who permitted the explosive
environment to develop.
One eye-witness to the debacle last year told
us that the Seaside police and firemen, by the
way they mishandled the
much to blame for what happened as tne young
sters (mostly college students) were.
BUT in the aftermath of last September's riots,
civic leaders in Seaside, as well as state offi
cials, had taken rather thoughtful steps to insure
against a repetition of the turbulence, and to han
dle it with dispatch should it recur.
Citv ordinances were
ud. providing for tougher
fraction. During the summer an increased num
ber of minors were arrested tor possession of
alcohol.
A new police chief, veteran of 30 years' expe
rience with the state police, was hired, and he
put out the word over two weeks ago that "If they
come, we'll be ready for
But all the advance
erate as a "come on" to
gonian editorial called them "punks"), and over
last week end noting broke out again, this time
reportedly more vicious and better planned than
last year.
THE whole fiasco, from any point of view, was
inexcusable. But in particular, heavy castiga
tion must fall on the youngsters.
High spirits in the
spring, is expected and
course. But open and senseless defiance ci the
law, coupled with malicious and wanton destruc
tion of private property
do physical injury to
which cannot be explained away.
That no one has been killed or seriously in
jured in these riots is a
students were hurling sand-filled beer bottles this
year. Seaside police and firemen were swinging
ax handles.
Individually, we're sure, most of them are
nice kids, but collectively there's no other word
for it they're a mob. The courts and the parents
of these youngsters must see to it that such a
disgraceful thing never
But Cops Share the Blame
We agree with G.H.B. 's views expressed
above. There is no excuse for such behavior.
But we'd like to elaborate just a bit on the
point that the authorities in particular the Sea
side officers were not wholly blameless.
Marge Davenport, a staff writer for the Ore
gon Journal, was on hand during the week end,
and in part, had this to report:
"It seemed safer among the 'Holing teen-agers' at Sea
side during the week end than with the almost hysterical,
club-wielding, gun-tnting Seaside city police.
"In sharp contrast to (he behavior of the Oregon Stale
Police special riot squad, which was praised by nearly every
one including the teen-agers, was Uie behavior of the local
police, its volunteers and the Seaside Fire Department.
"The language of many of these men was abusive, wheth
er Ihcy were addressing teen-agers or vacationing citizens
who happened lo be spending the week end at the resort city.
Anyone who got in their way was liable In he 'rapped' regard
less of his business and whether he was participating in the
riot or just trying to get nut of the way.
"Monday, a local law-enforcement truck roared down tho
crowd-packed street at open throttle without warning, as small
children, teen-agers and other vacationers scurried (or the
safety of the curb. No one was rioting then and there had been
no sign of violence during the day, although many teen-agers
were milling In the crowd . . ."
JVI1SS Davenport actually was threatened wiUi
if a "rap on the head" when she inquired the ;
number of arrests that had been made. A news-!
paper photographer was struck on the head, do-!
spite the fact that he was clearly identifiable as!
tint Koinrr u rintni- ' !
" : selves. Thus, he intimated, not
The Seaside mavor at one point supested only would the children be hcip
that danca music be 'provided for the kids, to di- 'V", the parents would be
vert them to less harmful activities, but this was" ' filiation,
countermanded i'iatlv bv the police chief, who1 professor Alien might have
told the orchestra leader that he would be jailed; M ,
if he or his orchestra played for the kids. longer school dav. a longer
None of this is in anv wav an excuse for thcl! "h sh""cr
.. . . ,ii : ni i.i iji i 'vaialion period might put an
youngsters neiiavioi. nicy liccu to oe patKiieo.
But it is a fact that the ienorant. arrocant.
. ,, . .... ,
bullying attitude Of the
have been a real factor in
their inexcusable actions.
We
Lou ,i-e imv,
words as "liberal" and
when todav the liberal
f tnn uti.iArwt lnitoi- ,.f
to the stnetest lettei of
ine conservative is ousy trying to pry loose some
of the nails on the Fifth Amendment. History
. aii -,i . i-..i
loves lo piay navoi: wiin
holes. Sydney J. Harris. '
for Rioters
element of American
is a cause of crowing
whole matter, were as
revised and tightened
penalties in case of in
them."
planning seemed to op
the youngsters (an Ore-
young, especially in the
taken as a matter of
and vicious attempts to
the olticers, is conduct
source of wonder. The
happens again. G.H.B.
,, . ' in iw accompanied ine
small town Cops must :l,slwr Day week end at Seaside,
nrovokinc the kids into! in Oregon, and a somewhat sim-
E.A.
such 1
unit - uiu nitrtiiiiiK miui
"conservative" have,
is eHntrinrr tpnariouslv
tho f 'mwtiiin imi u Vi ilii
the tom-titu ion, while
uur neat tune pigeun-
"Bad News, Chief Education Is Breaking Out
In Another Area"
A Tough Policy Is
Hard To Swallow
By Arthur Hoppe
Our State Department has
come under fire lately for the
way the Vietnam situation has
been handled. If that's what you
call it. But in all fairness and in
hopes of reassuring a nervous
American public, I feel we
should pause today to salute
the unsung heroes of our State
Department. Like the dedicated
little cadre of Policy Toughen-
crs.
You obviously have read re
peated casual statements by
high State Department officials
about how they plan to "toughen
our policy" in this or that part
of the world. But have you ever
given a moments thought to
those who must do the actual
work? Of course not.
On reflection however, it will
come as no surprise to learn
that in the bowels of the de
partment's vast beehive sit 73
caldrons of brine in which each
of our policies is soaked for
from one to six days by the
busy men and women of the
Policy Tightening Section the
length of time in the vast
dependant, ot course, on deli
cate calculations as to just how
tough we wish the policy to be.
From (here, the dripping pol
icy is carried to the Sight Set
ters, those highly trained spe
cialists who must set our sights
neither too high, for the benefit
of the Department officials who
feel "we must not sot our sights
too high," nor too low, for the
benefit of the other extreme.
Each Sight Setter, of course,
sets the sights (neither too high
nor loo low) on a rifle, rather
than a shotgun, as it is tradi
tional department procedure, as
you know, to "shoot with a rifle
rather than a shotgun.
The policy, now riddled with
rifle bullets, is rushed to the straighten, mend and acceter
Effort Department, where the ate our State Department's pol-
Effort Focussers. each w i h
graduate degree in optics, skill-1
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In Modesto the other day Pro- i
(essor llwight Allen, of Ihe Stan
ford Education faculty, told a
meeting of local school officials
that schools should run from 8
to 5 like businesses.
With a longer school day, he
said, students would do their
homework at school, where li-
nraries and me competent help
of librarians, teachers and other
stall are available. The addi
tional time, he said, would per
mit more individual instruction.
more lime for parent and staff
conferences and more flexible
XSg ofs'
. ..
A Ht, aiMoii
n would free nat-ems from n-v
ins to help children with mate-
rial they never studied them-
end to shocking incidents such
! .,?,i.r,?,!??.!h"!.,?r
liar rucKus ai ocean rark. in
Maryland, clear across Ihe na
tion from Seaside.
The fact that these incidents
.,.nP-j i,r ...... ,
indicate that the problem is not
local lo Seaside, or lo Oregon.
' Thev are apparently a rohlen
o -ur mm wwl(i
growing bundance of id ;
.,..,, h:r..-i
H these outbursts of row -
ii
ism? . a
Well, some two rentunes ago,
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
fully focus our efforts as spelled
out in the policy. Once theef
forts are focused they are im
mediately bent by the hard
working Effort Benders, diligent
men who have been known in
a crisis to bend every effort in
the department in 47 minutes
flat.
There has been some justifi
able criticism of the procedure
on the grounds that bending an
effort puts it out of focus. But
the department's Administra
tive Tighteners (those knowledg
able mechanics on whom we
rely to tighten administrative
procedures) assure us that any
effort which is bent in the de
partment usually gets straight
ened out in hardly any time at
all.
Depending on its toughness,
the policy is then stuffed in one
of several pipelines, which are
kept constantly free - lowing by
the Pipeline Uncloggers (Local
695, Amalg. Plumbers Union,
AFL-CIO). A soft policy, for ex
ample, would be dispatched to
a Tie Mender, whose drudgery
it is to mend tics, but only inter
national ones. A tough policy, on
the other hand, requires "an ac
celerated policy line." And is
thus forwarded to one of the
department's brilliant, but ex
plosive, Linear Accelerators.
Space forbids saluting I h e
hundreds of other behind -the
scenes departmental workers,
such as the Course Charters, Bot
tleneck Breakers, Fat Trimmers
and Scope Expanders, to name
but a few.
But 1 feel sure every Ameri
can would sleep sounder if he
but knew that these thousands
upon thousands of unsung heroes
stand ever ready to toughen,
riddle, focus, bend, tighten,
icy on Vietnam,
As soon as we get one.
JENKINS
Isaac Watts, one ot the great j
preaches of his day, put it like
tnis:
"For Satan finds some mis
chief still
"For idle hands lo do."
'IMUS relationship between mis-
-a- fhinf nnri iilft haniit one
; noted even earlier than
Watts' dav.
Isaac
Some 1.8O0 years ago. Dio
rhiysostom said in his Tenth
Discourse :
"Idleness and lack of occupa
tion are the best things in the
world to ruin the foolish."
ll'IIY this dangerous idleness1
Well, it isn't the fault of
lhf youngsters
11 the fai
fault of the times
they live in.
IN EARLIER days, there was
little idleness for the young
sters Throughout the year, there
wore CHOKES to do There was
wood to be cut and carried in.
There wore cows to be milked
even in the towns. There was
water to be carried. In even'
household more or less there
were tasks for the children to
do especially in the small
towns and the farm country
That is one reason (or the
relative shortness of the school
day and the school week and
ine scnnoi year. Bin inose flays manv of its institutions and tra-:
are gone where the woodbine ditions." May I ask. what insti
twineth tutions and what traditions we i
The problem of lodav is to
"id enough (or tfc. younger
,0 d0 , kfop , r
find enough for tfc younger gen-
mem-1
trs out of the mischief that i
comes wun idleness, ine prort -
lem u intensitied by tne shukt-
NESS of the school day., the
school week and the school yVar.
OREGON'
Tired Nehru Survives Disillusionment,
Shock, During Year;
By PHIL NEWSOM
UP1 Foreign News Analyst
For Jawaharlal Nehru, inher
itor of the mantle of Gandhi
and the only prime minister In
dia nas Known
in its IS
years
of ind e p e n d
ence, it has
been a year of
shock and dis
illusionm e n t.
First there was
the massive at
tack on India's
Kewiom border by t h e
Red Chinese,
blowing into smithereens Neh
ru's cherished concept of the
five principles of co existence
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No Humility
To the Editor: Thanks to the
informative TV presentation,
"American Revo lution '63,"
many of the times, dates, places
and incidents were put together.
But the absence of any humility
of the colored mobs and dem
onstrators or of their able lead
ers was alarming.
Nowhere was much if any
thanksgiving shown to any of
the responsible persons, peoples
or administrations for the chang
es and improvements (however
small and slow in coming) or
that in time they will receive.
I hope in its anguished ex
uberance the cause does not
beget an unbending monster.
Neil Jones
233 Lozier lane
Medford.
Highway Holocaust
To the Editor: Another holi
day has passed into history and
leu a disgraceful blot on our
highway record for accidents.
More than 500 killed and about
35 times that number injured.
Many crippled for life. A record
which supposedly civilized peo
ple, who sometimes act like
savages, should remember with
shame.
We act as nursemaids and
Santa Claus to many countries
ot the world while neglecting
disgraceful conditions in the
good old U.S.A.
A few simple remedies would
cure 50 to 75 per cent of the
highway ailment. A good doctor
analyzes the nature, character
and cause of a disease before
attempting lo apply a remedy.
First and foremost of t h e
causes is speed. Our legislature
increased the accident toll when
they raised the limit from 70
to 75 miles on the freeways. Sec
ond cause is reckless driving,
which often includes speed.
Third, drunken driving. Fourth,
left turn without a signal. Fifth,
following too close.
Due to speed faster than con
ditions warrant, many drivers
lose control, fail to make a
curve, skid on wet pavement
and car flips over because of a
blowout.
Ages 16 lo 17 have twice the
accidents of any other age group
and pay an extra premium for
insurance protection because of
the extra hazard.
Remedies: Make and enforce
a speed limit at 55 miles per
hour. That would get a driver
where he is headed about as
soon as an erratic speed of 70
to 75 miles and save many lives.
Second, apply a more drastic
nenaltv for sneeders reckless
and drunken drivers with no sus
pended sentences or probation
without regard to juvenile or
adult drivers. Third
make 18 years Ihe minimum age
for driver license. It 16 and 17
year old drivers are capable of
driving thev should be capable tnat dav j uts of tnis dog, please call
of being amenable to the law His answers wer ot satjs. ' . 2-7941 and help , reunite a lone
(or infractions of driving regula-1 rar,,.,. , m ,A . r. ly family and their dog.
lions to protect themselves and
other drivers.
Fourth, a major effort on mov -
ing violations by law enlnrcc
ment officers, ln one year there
was more than 100 per cent in
crease in parking citations and
' about 10 per cent increase for
moving violations. Fifth, cooper-
ate with law enforcement off i
cers at all limes. Sixth, use the
head in place of mechanical
safety devices. Seventh, cour-1
tosy and consideration for other j
drivers at all times.
Ed Black
2573 Camp Joy rd. '
Grants Pass, Ore.
Itahblr Housing
To the Editor: A reprint in
Ihe Eugene Register-Guard of :
your editorial "Lady, the Far I
Right Was No Misnomer." is an
editor's opinion only, and has
no fact or truth In it. You write
"The radical rightists are not ;
conservative because they do I
not wish to conserve what
good in America, but to destroy !
wish to destroy? And I want spe-
cific answers.
You write "Thev are suhver-
sive both in objectives and in
tactics, and radical" in that
1 tactics, ana ramcai in mat
, iney wouia mane ninaameniai
I changes in American govern-
I ment and politics. What Chan? rs
and severely testing his policy
of neutrality and non-alignment.
Then there was the motion of
censure which his opponents in
the Indian parliament were able
to muster for the first time in
all the 16 years.
In the early weeks of the
Chinese aggression, the Indian
people rallied behind Nehru as
never before.
Indian women contributed
their jewelry to the fund to build
India's military strength.
Then came the defeat of the
Indian army and the revelation
of its true state of unprepared
ness. The disgrace and ultimate
ouster of V. K. Krishna Menon,
are we who you call radicals
making?
Since you specifically men
tioned the John Birchers, may
I give their fundamental beliefs.
We believe in the Constitution
of the United States and do not
want to change our capitalistic,
free enterprise form of govern
ment. We believe in the two
party system of politics and the
rights of the individual to belong
to the party of his choice. We
know that the supreme court
has usurped its power and Earl
Warren has handed down 20 de
cisions which are pro-Communist
and anti-Constitution. This
is a matter of record. We know
that the radical uprisings in our
country are due to the infiltra
tion of Communism, and anyone
can look up the records of the
leaders of the horrible crusade.
We are supposed to be the last
bulwark of freedom, and a uni
versity professor, if you please,
leads a march for Freedom.
Irony?
To be well informed is educa
tion. This is the first requisite
of being a member of the J.B.'s.
If anyone thinks freedom is do
ing exactly as they please when
they please, without any thought
of those we may injure in doing
so, then, they lack education,
in Americanism, and freedom.
There is so much perversion
of the truth in your editorial,
that it is in itself radical and
rabble-rousing.
Edith Phetteplace
3939 Hilyard St.
Eugene, Ore.
Counterfeit Offering
To the Editor. Some years
ago, a minister bradcasting
from a Hollywood church took
for a subject the Fourth chap
er of Genesis, the 3rd verse,
"And in process of time it came
to pass that Cain brought of the
fruit of the ground an offering
unto the Lord." The minister's
reasoning proved beyond ques
tion that this offering was not
acceptable to the Lord (Gen.
4:5). It was brought at the end
of the days (Heb., or the Sab
bath) but was the effort of his
hands and did not point to the
sacrifice of the innocent one
to come (The Lord, Jesus
Christ). He gave the text found
in Hebrews 9:22 "And with
out shedding of blood is no re
mission." "The work of hands
is a counterfeit, offering," he
said, and is a poor substitute for
the heart and mind of man;
"man proves his love by obedi
ence to God."
My curiositv led me to ask
tne mims,er Dv lt'tte'" our rea-
son for having a counterfeit sab
bath, and why it was moved
up from the last day of the
week to the first day of the
week. I reasoned i God had
rested on the first day we
would have had no light for
that is what he created
1 rorm ln scripture.
i He said we worshin on the
; first day because Christ arose
on that day, but he gave no
Bibical proof for such a stand.
God help us to have Scripture
always, for answers to the ques
tioning of those seeking f o r
light.
James Williams
P. O. Box 441
Jacksonville, Ore.
Picnic
To the Editor: The Demo
crats very kindly let our So
cial Security Benefit club horn
in on their big Sunday picnic
in TouVelle park and 90 of us
turned out.
The day was be-u-ti-ful and
the eats scrimptious and fun
was there in all sorts of ways.
I like to pitch quoits but I
forgot my horseshoes and he
people used the ones there, so
I played ball instead. 1 hap
pened to pitch a low one to
quite a tall J'ville man and
when he dove to grab it, he
became the most prominent per
son in our locality. His trousers'
back-seam went flooey all the
wav nw ripmivrnts utnallv
j '. rarrv nin in nirr.ir
but there must have been some
Rfirtiihlti-'ane thor fnr thncf
(pants soon sot pinned togeth.'v
i and the game went. ... I didn't r
i and the game went. . . . I didn 1 1
write "on because I had done
j left that place, for I joined, the
I Jackson Creek Fifty-Niner and
No Successor Seen
Nehru's riehthand man and de
fense minister, followed.
But perhaps worst of all for
Nehru was the fact that for help
he had to turn to the United
States and Britain, the very
powers of whose world policies
he had been most critical.
Nehru still clung to non-alignment
because if he gave up that,
he gave up the cornerstone of
his whole philosophy.
But his tried voice as he de
fended himself in parliament
reflected both his shock and
disappointment and the weari
ness that went with it.
All these also were evident as
he defended himself against his
critics in the debate over the
motion of censure.
It was a political hodge podge
arrayed against him, and
against the heavy majority of
Nehru's Congress party it had
no chance of success.
But it gave voice to the rising
discontent against him and it
was given further expression by
demonstrators outside the par
liament gates, shouting "Nehru
get out!"
Among Nehru's opponents an
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
te) Field Entarprisee. Inc.
INCENTIVES
Have you ever noticed that it
is generally the same people
who talk about the need for
incentive" to
m a k e a man
work success
fully, who re
sent the idea of
"incentive" to
make a man
think success
fully? If inren-
v ".. tive is impor
k"a t a n t in the
Barns world of ac
t i o n, it is equally important
in the world of thought. The
human animal resists thinking
helped make musical noises. I
didn't join any of the contests
not even throwing rolling
pins. I just might have hit a Re
publican, accidentally of course,
tho' some of 'em hit us once
in a while or, oflener "ver
baly" of course, but it ain't
no accident, I bet you.
Now Everett, don't mind not
having car windows when a
pretty little skunk meets you
more'n half way. After a mid
night show in Texas, I helped
wash a brand new Chevy at
3 o'clock one morning. It was
driven back to College next day
still odoriferous. Windows
wouldn't have helped, and if
E.A. passes on all this informa
tion it's proof that he sizes
us Democrats up as worse than
skunks and if he had publicized
our picnic more I wouldn't be
thinking what you think I'm
thinking about what we'd do if
we were skunks cr looks
as tho' we're in for rainy weath
er soon.
Ahem! I ain't signing my real
name.
Mehetable,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Lost Dog
To the Editor: This letter is
written for help in finding our
lost black Labrador dog named
Jet. He became frightened dur
ing the thunderstorm last Fri
day night and ran away. The
dog is all black except little
white hairs around his mouth.
He is 6 years old and has been
, my husband's constant compan
ion, and my husband is lonely
for his dog.
We contacted the Humane So
ciety, dog pound and also ad
vertised in your paper, but there
has been no word about our Jet.
If anvone knows the where.
Mrs. M R. Archibald
2451 Roberts rd.
Medford.
' (
"Hollywood stars, opera singrrs. creative people li s
right they get depressed But houewf. h. no
not supposed to get drpreated"
immediate source of dissatisfac
tion were the new taxes imposed
after the Chinese aggression and
the lack of tangible evidence
that the country was in much
better shape than before.
There were other challenges.
There was the poverty which
after 16 years of independenca
remained India's greatest inter
nal problem. There were
charges of corruption and now
also the failure of a policy which
had given Nehru voice as the
world's greatest neutral.
Nehru touched briefly on them
all.
The country, he said, was
losing its vision and the govern
ment was tied up with humdrum
affairs.
In the end the debate settled
nothing.
General elections are not nec
essary until 1967 but Nehru al
ready is sending Congress party
leaders into the field in an at
tempt to revitalize support.
Nehru will be 74 this year. Hn
is tired and out of fresh ideas.
But if the censure debate dem
onstrated anything it was that
there is no one now to take his
place.
J. Hair if
unless it is made uncomfort
able, just as we resist working
if the challenge of survival i
taken away from us.
The men who would scorn a
game of golf if the cups wern
three feet wide, and who de
light in the difficult task of
overcoming a tricky course, at
the same time demand that tho
books they read, the music
they listen to, and the paintings
they look at be as simple and
effortless as tit-tat-toe.
When 1 hear people com
plaining abiiui me "obscur
iiy" oi a poem or the "nam
iicss" oi u uook, ii seems u
me thai uu-y are making a
confession in weakness mil
nicy wuuiu ue a s n a nic d
lo admii in tneir worn or in
Incir piay.
11 we waul suiiplicily, tluro
Is noining simpler uiau uc
uig a aidve. iae eusiavcd
tvussian peupie are
loiu wuai to iiiuiK aim wuai
iu 0 e 1 1 e v e in a-o-u lan
guage, ami uieir iiuuucciual
jiiouiems are solved uciuio
tiny are even siaiuu.
democracy uues noi mean
lliai evojuiie siuks iu uiu
lowest iesci. ine luuiuitia ,ii
uie iitpuunc ciiwsiuiit-u d na
tion oi educated men and
women who naa auuvaud
tile mental agility tu graouio
with uiincuU proolcms on a
high plane of thought.
mere is a misconception in
inuuern society mat uie wri
ter, or arust of any Kind, is
ooiigaieu lo drop Mis worn
into tne puulic s mouih. ac
tually, every work oi art is
an act of collaboration he
tween the arusi aim ine au
dience; and wiicn Uie laucr
reitise to coilaooralc, ine
arusi petulantly nicks mo
door of his ivory lower.
As Randall Jarrell remarks
in nis excellent uook, "focuy
anu ihe Age," we couiu re
spect inose who call modun
poetry nard" ti they read old
er poetry Shakespeare or Mil
ton or Shelley.
But they read nothing of tho
sort, and use the "obscurity"' of
the modern idiom as an excusa
for intellectual sloth.
Literature, like society, must
be based on incentives: if you
resent the "welfare state"
which gives people something
for nothing, you should resent
"welfare art" which no lazy
mind is entitled to accept.
Freedom both of the body and
of the mind depends on our
willingness to work for it.