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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha files of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 9. 1953 (Wednesday)
.Tnhn Emerson Cooper, 54,
Medford, a life-termer from
Jackson county, walked away
from the Oregon state prison
annex in Salem early today.
Three men ran to safety this
morning, seconds before their
stalled car was demolished by a
Southern Pacific passenger
train at the Sardine creek
crossing west of Gold Hill.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 9, 1913 (Thursday)
Reconsideration asked on act
to draft lathers.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The In
come taxpayer, both great and
small, is now suffering from
failure of Congress to pass the
Ruml plan. All comment now
indicates they have the Buml
plan, or tax forgiveness, without
the forgiveness."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 9. 1933 (Saturday)
High school football tram is
strengthened by return of Tom
my White. '
Home of James W. Bales rob
bed of $100 in broad daylight.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 9. 1923 (Sunday)
Eclipse of sun viewed here
through colored glasses.
Police enforce ordinance on
parking in front of fire plugs.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 9, 1913 (Tuesday)
Isis theater presents "The
Fight at Grizzly Gulrh."
Forest service Issues new edi
tion of Crater National forest
map.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct li tuperier;
even or eight li atcellent; five or
lii ii good.
1. A sign displaying three
golden balls from the ancient
crest of the Medici family rep
resents what business?
2. Penelope was the wife of
what Greek mythological char
acter? 3. In the nursery rhyme, how
many hags of wool did baa-baa
black sheep have?
4. Where is Uie Carlsbad Cav
ern? 5. Is Korea a flat or moun
tainous country?
li. In Colonial days, what was
a corriwainer?
7. The first meeting place
of the Conlinental Congress was
Hall in Philadelphia?
8. Are the Commissioners (ad
ministrative heads) of the Dis
trict of Columbia appointed by
Congress or the President.'
9. What is the latitude of the
North Pole?
10. Who said, "I believe this
government cannot endure per
manently, half slave and half
lice?"
Answers: 1. Pawnbroker. 2.
t'lysses. 3. Three bags lull. 4.
New Mexico. 5. Mountainous.
. Shoe maker. 7. Carpentrr'a
Hall. 8. President. 9. !M degrees
North. 10. Abraham Lincoln.
SIGN SaTfSB()Y
WELLING. England (UPI)
Two-year old Dominic Gilmore
was saved Irom fleam Minnay
night when he fell from a third-
floor window and his clothing
caught on a neon sign halfway
to the pavement.
SEPTEMBER 9. I9II3
Bracero Program
Both Sen. Wayne Morse and Sen. Maurine
Neuberger had points when they voted oppositely
in the li. S. Senate on the question of extending
the Mexican Farm Labor Act. He voted for it and
she voted against it.
The measure, which is pending in the House,
allows Mexican farm laborers to work in the
United States.
For Oregon, the program is desirable.
We happened to be with Senator Morse at
one informal hearing with Medford pear grow
ers in 1962, and know that testimony presented
then and in subsequent
ence showed conclusively that the so-called brae
ero system was vital to that area.
MEXICANS are available when needed, and
ATA they're fast and efficient. That is vital to a
pear grower who must have his crop picked when
it s exactly ready, and who must have pears witn
out bruises or stem punctures to survive' ship
voyages to Eastern specialty markets.
The Medford area growers have no luck at all
with domestic pickers. They get inadequate
response to calls for pickers locally. Migrant
workers who are mostly stoop pickers cannot al
ways handle the tougher pear picking. And the
winos from Portland, whom the Medford grow
res have to resort to upon occasion, are often
worse than no pickers at all unable to stay on
the long, swaying ladders with heavy sacksful of
pears on their backs (they seem to fall and get
hurt the day nicking ends, then go on state In
dustrial Accident insurance), or disappearing
before even a half day s picking, and the bruises
and stem punctures on the pears they do manage
to pick can spoil whole boxesful in the hot hold
of a ship.
Furthermore, the Medford people proved that
Mexicans aren't by any means exploited; they
make better money than domestic workers be
cause they're more industrious and more skilled,
and at piece rates their only limit is human en
durance of which they have much.
fN the national scene, the picture is less clear-
cut. There are probably more situations such
as the one in Medford than are generally pub
licized. But it is also certain that braceros are ex
ploited throughout the South at the expense of
Americans who could do the work as well or
better, as reports indicate.
Still, rather than to do away with a system
which has real advantages, the welfare of all
would be served best by improving it.
The bracero program has two virtues: Not
only does it make good workers available to
American agriculture, but also it provides needed
jobs for our much poorer neighbors to the south.
The fact that we allow
nere is noted with considerable gratitude by the
Mexican govenment
American governments.
the United btates beneht
f"NE addition we think
v program, however, is
way Mexican workers are
a national scale similar
laws which Oregon has recently passed.
The other addition is a program of re-training
for American field workers to move any sur
plus into more profitable enterprise, and to lay
the groundwork for the day when very little, if
any, hand work will be needed in the fields. At
the rate we are mechanizing, field work is a
dying occupation and those who are in it will
have to turn elsewhere for sustenance.
Again, Oregon has shown the way in local
communities by offering educational programs to
migrant children to help them escape the tread
mill they'd otherwise be trapped on. The U. S.
could do something like this.
On balance, then, we hope to see the bracero
program continued by House approval of the
Senate bill, along with guarantees of better treat
ment of braceros where needed and help for
American workers to find gainful employment.
Capital Press, Salem.
Four-Year Recess
NpPTn children in sniitlinni Virrnnii'c Pi,nnn
Edward County start their first formal education
in four years when a private nonprofit corpora
tion opens suiLjon-frce classes for them on Men-1
day, Sept. 1(. The county deliberately closed all;
puouc scnoois in iuj'.i rattier than comply with
court-ordered desegregation. A "private" school
system financed through state tuition grants has
given the l.SOO white children a semblance of
education since then.
But 1,700 Negro youngsters were left to shift
for themselves.
rpilE plight of the Negro childic
the conscience of the nation
state officials and leaders cooperated with the
.lusticc Department this year in forming the
Prince Edward Free School Association, as the
new privately financed group is called. Contribu
tions of at least $1 million will be needed to
operate classes held in three leased public school
buildings in two communities.
Teacher recruitment has proved no problem,
with returning members of the Peace Corps
proving one fruitful source. Their devotion and
ability will be tested to the full. Children up to
age 11 will be getting their first taste of school
ing, and psychologists studying the situation
found that some of them don't even know how to
hold a pencil. E.R.K.
meetings and correspond
Mexicans to earn money
one ot the key Latin
Hemispheric relations of
from this.
should be made to this
better policing of the
treated something on
to the migrant worker
en so shocked
that Virginia
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The Law
To the Editor: "Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye
even so to them: for this is
the law and the prophets."
(Matthew 7:12).
All practicing or professed
Christians should memorize this
verse and remember it when
they talk about the Negro prob
lem. The letter written by Mar
garet Abbott of Vancouver,
Wash., sent in by Leila Mor
row, is a very fine letter but
it ignores the law given by
Christ.
Can you put yourself in the
place of a Negro and under
stand exactly how he feels?
Would we white people want any
other race to treat us the way
some of us treat the Negro?
1 have been on the other side
of the fence and know how it
feels to be the underdog race.
1 went to school in Albuquerque,
N. M., where there were seven
white pupils and all the rest
were Mexicans. We played right
by the back door of the school.
We were afraid to go out on
the play ground.
Margaret Abbott places the
burden on the shoulders of the
Negro. That is the easy way
out for all of us. but it is not
the right way. If things were
reversed and you couldn't send
your children to school, couldn't
find a place to sleep, or eat
when on a trip, couldn't move
into a home you bought, just
what would be your attitude?
Maybe you would want to be
the color or race of the people
that oppressed you.
The Negro is not blameless
and neither is the white man.
but I think the black person is
less responsible than the white.
What we must do is try to put
ourselves in their place and un
derstand exactly how they feel.
Can you do that? That is the
law that Christ gave us.
Creston MeNecl
21)87 Delta Waters id.
Medford.
Wants To Know
To the Editor: The news of
today is filled with reports on
the progress of school integra
tion and we hear that numerous
scnoois are making the change
over peaceably.
In fact nearly all except where
Gov. Wallace is personally ob
structing integration. This an
swers one question "Why all
the furor"? Where the older The Picture
folks have stayed out of the pic-: To the Editor: Allen t i o n !
lure the students integrate Calling all unregistered voters
peaceably. j who are burned up over the out-
It also brings up other ques- rageous, unfair, $60 million in
tions which 1 will try to ration- come tax law now being cram
alize. If the whites are superior, ! med down our throats. Time is
what are t hoy afraid of Their i growing short. We will be going
actions give the lie to their lo the polls on this next October
contention and smacks of an 15. Be sure you can cast your
inferiority complex. i vote. Get registered NOW, be
llow will silting in a school fore you forge'.,
or other public place with No-! Remember, this is a law al-
groes contaminate the whites?
In the south and various olher i
places it has long hpen the cus- j
torn, very fashionable, to cm-
ploy Negroes as servants in
everv capacity, especially in Ihe
household. i
Now 1 will a.sk Ihe pi Ur nues- i
tions and sincerely desire a
sound answer. How. posiblv, can 1
attending an integrated school ;
i or other public place contami-; frighten us hy threatening to j swear, or at least use violent is true in the world. Knowledge,
nnte these whiles, whose stem- take this $60 million out of our j expressions. Not so. It is pos-,of a personal sort, is Ihe only
' at'hs are filled with food cooked j state school budget. In fact the j sible lo get one's mes s a g e : effective barrier to war. It is
, and served by Negro hands? very club they are expected to ; across by using the nicest lan- i the man who has seen no coun
W hen they have been nursed ' use to bludgeon us into paying ; guage. Anybody remember this try but his own who is nust
! and fondled since infancy by , the $6il million is to threaten to old-timer? ; willing to lake up arms against
: Negroes'' When the clothes they stop running the school buses. "Go to father," she said, when an impersonal enemy.
, wear have often boon cleaned, This is the same old gag used ', I asked her to wed. j The real tragedy of the Iron
pressed and sometimes been so often in some school districts ; Though she knew that her Curtain is not that it keeps us
made hy Negro hands'' lo get unnecessary, big, fat bud- father was dead out, but that it keeps the Rus-
I If handling their food, niirs-1 gets passed. ' And she knew that I knew sians in.
ing and bathing their bodies, i Wh.it ts this $6(1 million really thai her father was dead: Soviet leaders, since Ihe be-
' handling and caring (or their for, anyway? J FrancyT And she knew that I knew ginning, have fought relentless
I clothes and other close personal Howard, the hrioic Albany edi- . what a life he had lead. My against "cosmopolitanism "
contact will nut corrupt them. ! lor who headed our recent re- i And she knew that I knew because they are aware that
I prav tell me how can co-min-
1 ..i I ,l . - u
c mc n si niHi . i lcairr or Mini
itact is rate be so damaging,
downgrading and dangerous.'
' No, lo me it all points to an
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
The Street
TKt-vwrwtTeai tits
over inflated ego, which, when
taken individual by individual,
is no guarantee of basis in fact.
I write this without animosity
and ask these questions to clear
up certain lines of thought. I
want to know.
C. R. Burrill
834 '4 Cherry St.
Central Point, Ore.
Will It Help?
To the Editor: By his com
munication in the 95 Medford
Mail Tribune our Secretary of
State, Howell Appling, Jr.,
places before us wisdom of the
sages, truths of and for all ages,
in quotes from Judge Phil Gil
liam of Denver.
Will those who need them
read these truths, parent and
child, yes, both? Will the read
ing help them, cause them to
think, and do, the few little
things suggested? They're all
to benefit one s home and the
doer.
Is a generation, or more,
growing as a sort of wart, or
worse, to torment society; may
be civilization? Is it a growth
all the way from the too indulg
ent parent through community,
city, county, state; a sort of na
tional parasitic growth to en
courage and support through all
these agencies the providing of
playthings for all ages of peo
ple even to going way beyond
income to do it? Wiil Howell
Appling's letter cause them to
think, if read, of a possible time
and condition when present lav
ish spending must stop? Live
within means, or see more chil
dren resort to dishonest, maybe
criminal practices to satisfy an
abnormal craving for unneeded
things; a time when they may
have to do upkeep of home, as
suggested by Judge Gilliam if
one still has a home not hire
it done. One might think of a
time when one could wish they
had learned in advance how to
do all these things strongly rec
ommended by Judge Gilliam.
How pleasant and helpful if
learned in advance of necessity.
And if these playthings
amusement, pleasure, entertin-
ment are not available or pro
vided by one or more of these
several agencies, is petty iuve-
nilc thievery, damage to proper
ly, outoroaks oi riotous prac-
tices. as at Seaside and else
where, to be the answer?
John E. Cribble,
1,19 Kenwood ave.,
Medford.
ready. If we fail to vole it down
you will pay a healthy increase
on your 1963 income tax next
April. And even those who owe
no tax at all will still have to
pav a $5 filing fee.
The big spenders in our state
government are expected to put
on an all out propaganda drive'
in favor of Keeping this abomi-
nnlile tax law. They may try to
fertal petition drive to get this
. Ik. kill,., u rilnc in (h.
i i u n uu- mhi,., " i.-
August 9. I'.KI issue of his pa
per, "Greater Oregon, "ine
people, who have been voting
new. big budgets which have
Foreian News:
Seen Unlikely; European Auto
. . . nni,i,.ion lad u'oolr In
Bv PHIL NEVYSOM
L'PI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
No Deal
Diplomats in Paris see no real
likelihood of the West taking
up Soviet Premier Nikita Khru,
. sncnev serious.
ly on his plan
tor a non - ag
gression treaty
between NATO
and the W a r
saw Pact coun
tries. Although
the NATO coun
cil is spending
long hours dts-
cussing the
project, the French are adam
antly opposed and West Ger-
many is extremely cool. Diplo
mats expect the whole project
ultimately to be talked to death.
Auto War
Listen for the opening salvos
of an indirect price war among
European auto firms at the
Frank furt automobile show
opening this Thursday, Sept. 12.
Ford will offer a 50-horsepower
version of its 40-hp Taunus M-12
for little more than $25 extra.
It also will dangle at no extra
price, disc brakes and plush up-
Dog Control Patrols
To Be Tightened
In Ordinance Areas
There will be a tightening of
patrols by the dog control of
ficer in Jackson county, Chris
Hagler announced today in re
sponse to complaints received
from some Medford areas, which
are in the county dog control
officer's jurisdiction.
Opening of school, Hagler
stated, alwavs constitutes a
problem for the officers enforc
ing the dog control ordinance.
but restrictions will be enforced
as much as possible with a staff
of three men, including himself.
School grounds will be patrol
led, as usual, the officer said.
Increased emphasis in this
field was also promised by the
Jackson county court Monday.
The dog control officer has
orders to pick up any stary dogs
he sees without waiting for com
plaints, members of the court
stated.
Areas under the county dog
control ordinance are Medford,
Ashland, Precincts 57, 58B, 68A
and 66, which surrounds the city
of Jacksonville; Central Point,
Rogue River, Eagle Point and
Butte Falls.
The dog control office is open
seven days a week and the of
fice has alphabetical and num
erical files on all licensed dogs
in the county, Hagler said. He
asked that persons finding dogs
with licenses call the office im
mediately and the name of the
owner with the address will be
supplied.
Econ-O-Wosfi Vending
Machine Broken Into
Medford city police investiga
ted two cases of breakage in
automatic vending machines in
the city over the week end.
Three machines at Econ-o-Wash,
918 King St., were bro
ken into sometime Saturday. Of
ficers reported about $14 in
change was missing.
A soft dnng machine at a
service station at 1068 South
Riverside ave. was broken into
sometime Saturday night. No es
timate of the loss was available,
officers said.
caused your property taxes to
be more than doubled, now wan
you to pay out another $60 mil
lion so that the governor and
the 'Big Spenders' can buy more
private land in Salem on which
to erect more state buildings,
costing more millions of dollars.
"The $60 million which you
are told to be happy to pay will
let the govenor hire 1800 more
state employees, including 256
new state welfare case work
ers." Do you get the pictured There
will be no end to this expanding
welfare state bureaucracy and
ruinous dpending unless we stop
it by our vote on next October
15.
Jerry Somtncr
677 Town st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
: She Knew
To the Editor: There are a
j lot of people who think that in
'order to he emphatic they must
what she meant.
Utldll tho calH
Go lo falh-
-... on....
David Frisch
T (V Bex S2
White City, Ore.
holstery formerly expensive
extras before car-happy show
visitors. Volkswagen is cutting
the price of its 1,500 model,
which is being threatened in the
marketplace by Ford's 1,500-cc,
50-hp machine. Auto industry
experts say olher major Euro
pean car builders may have to
match these leaders in cutting
prices and making concessions.
Inflation Fight
President Charles de Gaulle's
government will announce plans
next Thursday to fight the infla
tion which is threatening to un
dermine the whole image of the
prosperous new Gaullist France.
The plans probably will include
a modest credit squeeze, a
crimp in installment buying
particularly of automobiles
attempts to control speculation
in real estate, and ceiling prices
on key foodstuffs.
Presidential Ambitions
Vice President Amanuel Pe
laez has his eye set on being
the next president of the Philip
pines and, according to Filipino
political sources, his chances
are good. The sources say Phil
ippine President Diosadado Ma
capagal gave Pelaez his big
chance though not intention
ally when he linked Pelaez
with American businessman
Harry S. Stonehill who was de
ported from the Philippines last
year. The sources say that Pe
laez, once a loyal supporter of
Macapagal, now feels he is his
own man and is free to pursue
his own political ambitions.
Diplomatic Kecognition
Look for East Germany to try
to cash in on the continuing bad
feelings Pakistan feels towards
the United States. U. S. Under
Secretary of State George Ball
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc Field Enterprises. Inc.
FEAR OF THE STRANGER
I witnessed a minor automo
bile accident yesterday morn
ing. Two cars brushed fenders
slightly, a n d
each ol the
drivers ( as usu
al) seemed to
be partly at
fault. The two
men got out of
their cars and
j a p p r oacneo.
J each other
w i i. u tiAjjiua-
mrn sions of anger
and resentment. Then, about
three paces apart, they sudden
ly recognized each other as
slight acquaitances and the
tension was immediately bro
ken. Each became sheepish and
apologetic; the hot tempers dis
appeared and were replaced by
philosophic shrugs. The matter
was settled amicably within a
few minutes, they waved good
bye to each other, and drove
off.
There is a deep lesson here,
it only we would begin learn
ing it. An:;er and aggressive
ness come from fear: and fear
comes from strangeness. The
only clement that had chang
ed in (his whole accident pat
tern was the mutual recogni
tion thai the olher was no
stranger.
Hiding within our elaborate
mechanization of civilization
is the primitive fear of the
alien, the outsider, the bar
barian from the olher end
of the forest.
When an emotional crisis
strips off our mask of civili
ty, we snarl and bare our
fangs at the savage who has
shocked, alarmed or anger
ed us.
Kxcrpl in rare rases, it is
difficult In dislike someone
you know, and it is almost
impossible to treat htm uith
the hostility you might exhib
it Inward a stranger.
For, knowing someone, how
ever slightly, means making
some kind of identification
with him. and thus recogniz
ing that he Is not a danger
ous foreigner but a man pret
ty much like yourself.
w a
Motorists drive more prudent
ly and politely in a small town,
for instance, not because they
are better people or better driv
ers, but simply because thev
know almost ail Ihe other mo
torists, and would he ashamed
lo display the ruthless bad man
ners of motorists in the anonv-
; mous traffic of a big citv.
) What is true on the highway
the Kuss an who gets lo know
the world, and feels at home
in other countries, can never
again regard us as Ihe barbari-
an from Ihe other end of the
forest.
Non-Aggression
went to Pakistan last week to
try to keep Pakistan from drut
ing closer to Red China a
move generated largely by Pak
istan's anger over continued
U. S. arming of India, which
it considers a greater threat
than the Communist Chinese.
Ball failed to win any asurances.
Working on President Moham
mad Ahub Khan's general dis
pleasure with the West the Reds
have been working to solidify
Strange Religion rj
Of the Solons mm
By Arthur Hoppe jfTV.' A
WASHINGTON - I have com
piled another chapter in my
work, "Strange Native Customs
in Washington and Other Sav-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Corning. Iowa:
The militant National Farm
ers Organization (NFO if you
prefer initials) which last sum
mer staged a five-week market
rebellion on livestock, has
launched a holding action de
signed to keep feed grains off
the market.
The plan calls for merrtbers of
the in-state farm organization
lo withhold soybeans, corn and
grain sorghum from market un
til the NFO signs contracts for
higher prices with processors.
ALONG with the withholding
action, members are being
asked to sign grain sales agree
ments which would give NFO
leaders virtual control of the
marketing of soybeans. Soy
beans are chosen for the first
withholding because the soy
bean harvest begins next week
in some parts of the NFO area.
The plan wil be extended to oth
er feed grains as this year's
crops begin to come into the
market.
Along with the withholding ac
tion, members are being asked
to sign sales agreements which
would give NFO leaders virtual
control of the marketing of soy
beans. QUESTION:
Will it work?
SEARCHING for an intelligent
answer, it will work if
enough growers sign up in the
first place, and then STICK
WITH IT until demand exceeds
supply.
If and when that time comes,
the price will go up in response
to the workings of the basic law
of supply and demand.
That's about the long and the
short of it.
TlfODERN progress note:
The Canadian Forestry
Department has invented a gun
that plants Ponderosa pine
trees by the simple device of
firing plastic bullets into the
ground with a spring-operated
gun.
Each bullet contains a seed
ling, as young as eight weeks
from the seed. As the seedling
grows, the plastic case breaks
and allows the roots to expand.
Survival and growth of the seed
lings is now being watched care
fully. TWE main advantage of it, the
foresters report, is that the
root system is not disturbed. In
Ihe ordinary plantings, the for
esters must begin with nursery
grown stock that is transplanted
first in the nursery and again
when it is moved to the refor
estation areas. There is no dis
turbance of the roots in the case
of the bullets.
The technique was developed
hv a research forester at tho
j University of British Columbia.
If it is successful, it is believed
that it will greatly reduce the
cost of replanting denuded
areas
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ing tools of the modern world.
Where it will lead us, nobody
knows.
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fheir ties with his counti-v,,j
their ties with his country and
can be expected to work harder
now. According to reports from
tasi Benin some lime ago, the
East German Communists are
trying to expand trade relations
with Pakistan, particularly by
working for an exchange of
trade missions. The Communists
hope that such trade missions
could pave the way for tha
establishment of diplomatic re
lations. age Lands." But I hesitate to
publish it for fear my fellow an.
thropologists will hoot me down
as a charlatan. Nor cnnlri r
blame them. The conclusion is
unbelievable.
For I had the extreme good
fortune to observe with my own
civilized eyes the Weird Annual
Foreign Aid Sacrifice of tha
Solons, one of the many indi
genous native tribes of Wash
ington and one of the most prim
itive. This strange sacrifice is held
each summer, concurrent with
the hop harvest, in the Solons'
well - guarded compound atop
the strategic heights of Capitol
Hill. The rites last many days.
They begin when the Kennedys,
a numerous tribe dwelling in
the flatlands, offer the Solons
the victim, which is always call
ed "Foreign Aid."
What happens next is perhaps
most reminiscent of "the death
by a thousand cuts" as prac
ticed by the Blackfoot, the
Sioux and the Hottentots of West
Madagascar. But more blood
curdling. "Foreign Aid" is first sent to
one end of the compound where
the Representatives or lower
class natives dance furiously
around it for days, waving mys
tic papers and shouting unin
telligible imprecations. Then at
last, when Ihe tribe has worked
itself into a savage rage, comes
the bloody climax. Each native
makes a cut in the victim, tha
size of the cut depending upon
the native's stature among his
fellows.
While this occurs, the Ken
nedys and their allies in Stale,
AID and other minor tribes,
dance around the base of tha
hill. And as each cut is made,
they moan or scream aloud in
simulaled agony. This continues
until all the natives are exhaust
ed and the victim near expira
tion. But, unlike among the Hotten
tots, the victim is never killed.
Instead, its limp form is carried
to the other end of the com
pound where the Senators, who
are apparently chosen for their
advanced age, quietly restore it
until it is almost as good as new.
They then give it back in solemn
ceremonies to the Kennedys,
who invariably express their
gratitude to all Solons in gen
eral. The compound then re
mains quiet for another year.
Now, any anthropolgist fa
miliar with Stone Age cultures
will agree there are few sur
prises in the rites themselves.
What staggers the imagination
is the reason for the rites.
For the liturgy is invariably
Ihe same. The cuts are made to
appease the native diety, who
is called "The Voter," and who
dwells in a nirvana called "Tha
Grass Roots" and whom tha
Solons believe to be unalterably
opposed to "Foreign Aid."
But, the anthropologist will
ask, if the voter in the Grass
Roots does oppose Foreign Aid,
would He be appeased by the
same meaningless riles year
after year? If He had a grain
of sense? Which means the en
tire rile is merely a demonstra
tion of the Solons' faith in tho
stupidity of The Voter. And
whoever heard of a tribe that
worshipped stupidity?
Oh. I ll be laughed out of th
Explorer's Club.