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History from tne files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Scpl. 1953 (Sunday)
Evergreen Bus lines fares for
school children will not be in
creased at this time, it has been
announced.
-Mervyn C. Gleason, Central
Point, won the Mcdford Mail
Tribune Bargain Day contest for
being the earliest Tribune car
ried who entered.
20 YEARS' AGO
Sepl. 13. 1IU3 (Monday)
Fire destroys Faber Ware
house at Central Point; loss
estimated at $5,500.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "People
continue In save gasoline out
of a four-gallon allotment to go
to Hie woods but not to cut
nexl winter's fuel, of which a
forth-coming shortage is alleg
ed." 30 YEARS AGO
Sepl. 13, 1933 (Wednesday)
Appraisal of valley irrigation
projects approved by govern
ment. Failure of NRA and Roosevelt
recovery schemes predicted by
head of Technocrats.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 111. V.I23 (Thursday)
Local boy held for cashing
forged checks on extensive
scale.
Ohio flood victims acknowlege
Medford gifts.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 13, 1913 (Saturday)
Eleven carloads of Bosc pears
were shipped out of the valley
today by the Rogue River Fruit
and Producers association.
E. B. Hanley has started con
struction of a $3,000 modern
storeroom and packing house on
his ranch four miles west of
Mcdford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior;
even er eight is eacellent; five el
sit it good.
1. What shell fish is common
ly believed to be fit for human
consumption only in the months
containing the letter "R"?
2. What is the official Russian
news agency called?
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe is
famous as the author of what
book?
4. What was the one word that
Poo's raven repeated?
5. If a pen and ink cost BO
Cents, and the pen cost 50 cents
more than the ink, what did the
ink cost?
6. What game is sometimes
called barnyard golf?
7. Elephants drink through
Oieir trunks; true or false?
8. A contagious disease is the
same as an infectious disease;
true or false?
9. Warren G. Harding was
President of (he U. S.; for what
did the initial stand?
10. Does the Pacific Ocean
cover about one-four, one-third,
or one-half of the earth's sur
face'.' Answers: 1. Oysters, t. Tats.
3. "L'nclc Tom's Cabin." 4,
"Nevermore." I. Five rents.
6. Horseshoes. 7. False. 8. False,
t. Gamaliel. 10. One-third.
MATIIIK .SCHEDULED
ASHLAND Johnny Mathis,
well-known vocal artist, will ap
pear under the sponsorship of
Southern Oregon college at lied
rick Junior High school in Mcd
ford, Oct. 22, Jeff Lee, director
of field services at the college
has announced.
4
SEPTEMBER 13. IW.3
Sales
Tax
The Legislature's Interim Committee on Tax
ation has voted to undertake a study of a sales
tax for Oregon.
This is a good idea. Such studies have been
made before, to no avail. But the time has come
for a new consideration
We have been more
recent months, with the
now say they would favor such a tax provided
it were coupled with income and property tax
relief. It mav even be that the time has arrived
when a majority of Oregon voters would approve
such a measure despite their repeated rejections
in the past.
THE last major survey of Oregon's tax program
undertaken by an outside expert was six years
ago, when Prof. John F.
sitv did so.
He did not, at that
tax. Oregon then still had surpluses left over
from the postwar years, and the income and prop
erty taxes were sufficient to carry the burdens of
state services.
But Professor Sly did say that, when the
state's general fund budget exceeded about $333
million for a biennium, a sales tax should be con
sidered, both to raise the added revenues needed
by a growing state, and to reduce the burden of
income and property taxes.
WHAT many people do not realize, or ignore
if they do realize it, are these things:
Oregon is, and always has been, a "high
service" state, with the people asking for, and
supporting, good education, good highways, vet
erans benefits, forest rehabilitation and protec
tion, agricultural research and farmer assistance,
efficient police services, good institutional care
for those requiring it, and the other things which
a state can provide for the people it serves.
The proportion of people in the active earn
ing and taxpaying years has been decreasing,
while the proportion of those in the pre-earning
and post-retirement years who require more of
the expensive state services than others has increased.
THE combination of these factors have served
to boost the level of income taxes to a point
where many taxpayers are in rebellion. The same
factors have boosted property taxes to a point
where they are almost
stances, particularly in
on fixed incomes and on
lishing homes and families.
Yet, at the same time, there is considerable
wealth in Oregon. Also, at the same time, the
per capita total taxation in Oregon is actually
lower than it is in either Washington or Cali
fornia both of them safes tax states.
Is it, then, time to put a "third leg" on Ore
gon's "two-legged" taxation program?
JT MAY BE. And this is
tha intnriin fnmmittnn
Whether the referral of the income tax law
is in protest to it, specifically, or whether it is
simply in protest to all
is unclear. Probably various people have various
motivations.
But this much is eminently clear: If Oregon is
going to continue its present level of services
including good schools, colleges and universities
it is going to need more money. If it is going
to take care of the huge tide of youngsters who,
in another two years, will be seeking college edu
cations, it is going to need much more money.
If Oregonians can be
it is our belief that they will, as in the past, be
willing to dig down a little deeper.
And it mav be that a
property tax program is the best way in which
it can be done, fairly and justly. E.A.
Hopes for Bear Creek
It is gratifying to see that, at long last, some
thing is being done to see if Bear creek our
stagnant, valley-long community open sewer
can be cleaned up.
For years it has been a case of everyone talk
ing about it but no one doing anything about it.
Now, with the Rogue Basin project in the
offing, it finally appears that a solution is in
sight. The addition of a few cubic feet per second
to summertime flow would do worlds of good in
making the creek the attractive waterway which
it should and could be.
rpiIERE are many uses for water. We drink it,
bathe in it, do dishes ami laundry in it, use
it for livestock and irrigation and power, for fish
ing and recreation.
Each of these uses is a legitimate one.
It can also legitimately be used for the double
purpose of increasing the enjoyment of a stream,
and eliminating the twin problems of pollution
and health danger, both now inherent to the
situation along Bear creek.
If, for a relatively minor cost, we can change
summertime Bear creek from a stinking, scummy
sewer, a menace to health ami an offense to the
eye, into a stream large enough to carry away
the dirt and the filth, to regain its beauty, and
nerhaps even to carry fish again this, then will
be money well spent. E.A.
Another of life's modern annoyances seems to be increasing
the use of wire staples on mailed pamphlets, press "re
leases" and periodicals. Even some slate departments art?
using them on their house organs. Of course, there's a
choice either break a fingernail getting them open, find
something to pry them open, or toss them into the waste
basket. We usually prefer the latter.
Oregon Statesman, Salcnj,
Study
of a sales tax for Oregon
and more impressed, in
number of people who
Sly of Princeton Univer
time, recommend a sales
confiscatory in many in
the case of retired people
young people just estab
one of the things which
milt nnncirlpr
taxes, indiscriminately,
convinced of these facts,
balanced sales-income-
r i
Lropoui
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contrary is often the case.
Editorials Liked
To the Editor: Friends in
Medford have recently mailed
us a number of good editorials
from your paper. Some were
reprints from other papers,
others signed with the initials
E.A.
All that we have been privil
eged to read exhibit a high
degree of creative intelligence
and selectivity, or in the
vernacular a lot of good com
mon horse sense.
More than the editorials of
number of papers we see, in
cluding Western Edition, the
New York Times, which are
many times most excellent, the
editorials in the Mail Tribune
give one hope and courage in
the fight for a finer and more
democratic America.
More power to you!
Mark A. Chambcrlin,
Route 3, Box 1033,
Gresham, Ore.
School Bible Class
To the Editor: Monday, my
4th grader brought home a form
from school which 1 was to fill
out and return if I wished her
to have Bible study lessons at
school. I did not return the
form (for various reasons,
irrelevant herein) and thereby
excused her from this class.
Tuesday, my child came home
and said:
'Well. I mav as well go into
Bible studv because they told
us those who don't take it just
have to sit in the old school
room and work."
Someone explained to my little
girl that "the others will get
to go hear lots of nice interest
ing stories, and all you'll get to
do is sit here and work on as
signments," she told me.
I believed this sort ol ming
settled. When has the school
scheduled time for a Bible story
class? If such class is ar
ranged, why not a class in
science, or pnuosopny, lor me
students who do not wish lo
hear Bible stories?
Is this not unfair lo children?
Is it not a form of pressure
by religious groups to force
children beyond parential guid
ance? Please withhold my name for
my child's sake.
A Mother.
Central Point, Ore.
Soul Searching
To the Editor: Perhaps the
Medford attorney who suggested
that "inactive Democrat com
mittee people be replaced but
did not know how to do it" can
not impress tnem with anything
the Democrat party has done
in the past two years that would
cause the workers to feel proud
of their parly or their leader.-!
Was the Bay of Pics affair
satisfactorily handled? Were
the Russians taken out of Cuba
as scheduled? Is this whole af
fair closed, or is there more
fact than fiction that ,i deal
with Russia lo get Russian
troops out of Cuba before elec
tion time in 19M in exchange
for up to $10 billion is being
offered? Does the so-called
treaty with Russia really give
any advantage to U.S. security?
Does the attorney believe Russia
will ever he anything but a
threat lo US?
Does this Democrat-controlled
Legislature's tax bill really give
anvone a fair dear If so, why?
, ...... .i ... .i...
who suggests replacing Demo
... .. ... . ,
lm' Bn' """7 "thinking about all the millions
party representative to Sa e , midlll(M),.,llc.
"ZVl , h in .5 ; road Americans who don't have
V 7,h, ' ' i , "? committee 1-
crat committee people controls
the Democrat partv machinery ' J. now. thf , d
In Jackson county' 'n,-ro;d American feels these
No wonder the' partv wants , llys- ' n Pup his paper
to have active workers, there j '" reading where the Rad
isn't anvthins lo work (or ev ! ,or 'he Radical Lett
iwnt tn islihi f.iilurM When this ! h formed this or that new
attorney wonders what hr.Piviv j
ed to the majority of the Demo-
crat partv of last vear he m.ty
think of an answer. It'i protty i
obvious that lots of Dmo, r.ils
have been doing some oul
searching, thinking and have
seen the light and changed. h.nr
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
registration. There will be many
more doing the same thing in
the months to come.
Mrs. Catherine Lynch,
139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford.
Unhappy Fishermen
To the Editor: There are, at
a recent count, 2,500 unhappy
fishermen, who are uneasy at
the Game Commission's plan
to cease stocking Hyatt Lake
with trout.
These 2,500 unhappy sports
men are the ones who have
signed a petition at Mrs. Dora
Bowman's Hyatt Lake store,
begging the commission NOT
lo make the lake a warm-water
fishery; and urging the com
mission to continue to stock the
beautiful lake with trout.
Two years ago, they tell me,
the commission planted a num
ber of trout in Hyatt. Today
you can catch some of those
trout, only they are now 18 and
19 inches long, fat, beautiful.
ana they tight like a steelhead.
They are delicious eating, also.
Doesn't this prove that Hyatt
Lake is an ideal trout-rearing
oociy ol watery
The Oregon trout (especially
the BIG ones at Howard Prairie
and Hyatt Lake) are so-called
glamorous fish, sought by men
and women anglers from EV
ERY state of the land. Tile
registers at the resorts men
tioned above attest to this. I
doubt very much that these
people will ever come back to
this area when they find out
that Hyatt Lake will be a warm-
water fishery only, where the
Smells As Good As
A Real Committee
By Arthur Hoppe
We've got a new national com
mittee on the national scene.
It's called "The National Com
mittee Against The Treaty of
Moscow," meaning the nuclear
test ban. And I'm worried.
What worries me is the com- i
mittee's headquarters is in the j
Madison avenue office of Mar-
vin Liebman Associates, Inc.. I
a public relations firm. And ;
that's alreadv
uir uuiiie ui a
half dozen Right Wing commit
tees. Like "The American Com
mittee for Aid to the Katanga
Freedom Fighters." '"The Com
mittee (or the Monroe Doctrine"
and, less specific ally, "The
("One million what'"' I'd like
lo know.)
But it's not the overcrowding
thai worries me, although I bet
it worries the building, superin
tendent, ("Now look here, Mr.
Liebman, you said it was only
you and a couple of stenogra
phers w hen you rented t h e
place . . .")
Nor am I criticizing the ef
ficiency of this arrangement.
After all. if the One Million
wish to confer privately with
the Freedom Fighters about the
Monroe Doctrine, all Mr. Lieb
man need do is stick his
head in a paper bag.
No sir. What worries me is
....-I K..a
committee lo stamp out that or j
sve An" u,es ne 1,01 j
committee to his name. No
status. No prestige. It's enough
to make him a radical. j
So in order to secure peace,
preserve the domestic tranquil-1
ity and make money, I've be-1
Close U.S.
Policy; Negotiations
. -.j t
Bv PHIL NEWSOM
UP1 Foreign News Analyst
MADRID, Spain (UPI)-Span-ish
officials emphasize that
maintaining close relations with
the United
States is a key
stone of Spanish
foreign p o licy
They say this
will continue to
be true regard
less of the cur
rent outcome of
Washington ne-
si.wsom gotiations for
the renewal of
the U. S. Spanish base agree
ment. The agreement, concluded in
1953 and - due to expire this
Sept. 26, covers U. S. Strategic
Air Command bases at Torre-
jon outside Madrid, Moron out
side Seville and Zaragoza mid
way between Madrid and Bar
celona, and the Mediterranean
naval base at Rota. Other,
smaller, installations also are
involved.
Generalissimo Francisco Fran-
catfish, perch and bass are its
only fish quarry.
It is generally known that the
most successful way to fish
Hyatt is with a boat. Doesn't
that mean then that these an
glers will have to acquire first,
a car; then a boat and boat
trailer; and an outboard motor,
along with cushions, anchor,
and all the other numerous
paraphernalia; plus a good rod
and reel?
Therefore, dealers in these
items also have something to
gain if Hyatt is kept up as a
first-class trout fishing body of
water.
But aside from the financial
aspect of this fishery to South
ern Oregon, is the fact that
these 2,500 Oregon voters are
unhappy with the commission's
plan for this lake, although they
are petitioning for a redress.
Does anyone remember that
quotation, "of, by and for the
people?"
Jim Santich,
937 NE Croxton,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Tax Election Day
To Be State Holiday
SALEM (UPI) - Oct. 15, the
day of the tax referendum elec
tion, will be a state holiday.
State and county offices will
close, and no alcoholic bever -
ages can be served until the
polls close at 8 p.m. Banks and
business firms are expected to
remain open.
gun market research on a new
product. It's called: "Instant
Committee."
Instant Committee will come
in three designs: Emergency,
Standing, and for the quality
trade. Ad Hoc
Packaged attractively in red
white and blue bunting, the kit
will consist of a disposable gav-
ei. wail Diaaue savine "Insi -
lor All," a list of 100 D i s
linguished Sponsors, one letter
head, 500 petitions of Congress
men beginning, "We deplore
. . ." and a Certificate of Grate
ful Appreciation to Our Chair
man with a space for the pur
chaser to fill in his name.
Instant Committee, like any
new committee, folds easily, it
stores, however, in a cardboard
box requiring only two square
feet of shelf space, thus saving
hundreds of dollars in office
rent alone. All titles and dec
larations of principle are, of
course, easily erasable so the
product may be re-used over
and over again. And when final
ly worn out, the cardboard box
: itself may be boiled for seven
minutes to create "Instant Com
mittee Dinner."
I With mass production, we i ,rom wc" 'shers. Venezuela s
hope to be able to market In-! President Romulo Betancourt
slant Committee at $3 98 each w,rp1 congratulations,
lor $37. Hi a dozen. In return for, "he Venezuelan government
100 unwinding bands, we plan as-suri tne Prietos of its pro
I to offer as a special bonus an i t,'c,",n and told them not to
I Instant Sociotv or for 11X1). an ' orr' Tn Venezuelan organiza
: Instant Movement. i ,lon: Friends of I niversily Hos-
The onlv flaw in Instant Com-
mittec so 'far is that due to mass
niwwii. ,ir.m..i, ih,
names of the 100 distinguished
sponsors are the same m every
package
And who d buv the
idea of a half dozen committees, j If Mr. and Mrs. de Prieto
all composed of the same poo-! can get awav with all that and
pie1 icome out smiling and happv, I
Take your head out of t h a 1 1 reckon we can wangle through
paper bag. Mr. Liebman We've j somehow or other up here in the
got i question we want lo asklU. S. A.
you. . j The government w ill profit,
Relations
co s government called for a re
examination of tne treaty terms
on the grounds that after 10
years changing conditions justi
fied certain changes.
Government officials here are
wary of describing the exact
changes sought or the progress
of the negotiations, which they
describe as being in a "deli
cate" stage.
But they say that since 1953
the Soviet Union has achieved
Matter of Fact a jp" ai.oP
(O New York Herald Tribune Syndicitt
THE LUNATIC COMPROMISE
VIENTIANE, Laos For the
present the aifairs of this
charming but endlessly troubled
little country
are governed
by a lunatic
c o m p romise,
h a 1 f w a y be
tween partition
and neutraliza
tion. You would
say partition
straight out if
it were not for
Aisnn the map. tne
map, showing the probable lo
cation of the six main kinds of
military forces now operating in
Laos, looks like nothing so much
as an attack of measles in six
different colors.
In order of their current im
portance, these forces are: first,
the anti-Communist army of
Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, number
ing just under 60,000; second,
the 25.000 plus of the indigen
ous Communist Pathet Lao;
third, the 7,000 or so neutralists
under Gen. Kong Le; fourth, the
armed Meo tribesmen, who are
also anti-Communist; fifth, the
seven or eight North Vietna
mese Communist battalions
which have remained in Laos in
violation of the Geneva agree
ment; and sixth and finally,
about a thousand Chinese Com
munist troops disguised as
"roadbuilders," also here in
violation of the Geneva accord.
IHESE multitudinous forces
are partly localized, to be
sure. The anti-Communist army
uuius uie crucial meKong valley,
for instance, whereas the North
Vietnamese are mostly on the
line of the infiltration route into
South Viet Nam, and the Chi
nese "roadbuilders" are all in
Phong Saly province, on the
Chinese border.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As you may have gathered
from reading the papers, listen
ing to the radio and watching
the TV screens, the world is full
of problems.
There's the mess in Saicon
and what to do about it. And the
' nuclear test ban treaty. Is it
1 good or pad; is hroosh mellow
j ing as he grows older? Or has he
got something ui) his sleeve that
hasn t yet met the eye?
TN OUR country, taxing less,
A spending more, putting the
difference on the cuff and leav
ing the bill to be paid bv future
generations while we LIVE IT
UP as we go.
Is that good or bad?
Here in Oregon, shall we vote
the tax bill down come the 15th
of October and trust to luck that
we can get a better one later?
And so on.
frilERE are problems evcry-
- where.
In Maracaibo. down in Vene
zuela, for example.
pRIMARILYthe Maricaibo
1 problem concerns Mr. and
Mrs. De Prieto who had a
happy event in their family the
i other day. A dispatch from Ven
iezuela says:
With gifts beginning to arrive.
tne proua parents of QUIN
TUPLET boys pondered today
how they will support five new
sons in their one-bedroom home
on Mr. de Prieto's $10 a day in
come. 'IMIE mother, Mrs7 Ines Marie
- Cuervo de Prieto, age 34,
got out of bed to take a brief
iook at her problems or. it ap
pears, to count her blessings.
She and her husband are blessed
not only with the newly arrived
quints, but with 15 other chil
dren by previous marriages.
She told visitors:
"With only one bedroom, it's
going to be a little crowded at
our house, but mv husband and
I are VERY PROUD."
4 LL is going well.
The mnlh
I ne mother s room is
filled with flowers. Her husband
was busy all day answering a
constant flow of telephone calls
i W" ciotmng lor tne
i ',ve, mf?n.ls ?nd, sfnt alon8 five
basketsful of diapers.
. Everything appears to be love-
i '' Wllh 'he gxse hanging high
t roxci.t-sii-iv
Keystone
for Bases
i ;h th. ItniioH Stale in
parity with the United States in
nuclear wanare ana uiai a
cover of fighter planes is no
longer sufficient for Spain's de
fenses. Therefore, they say that
Spain is taking an even greater
risk now than before in permit
ting the bases on her soil.
Such an argument lends
weight to reports that, among
other things, Spain believes
that further U. S. military aid
should be given in the form of
But this localization is very
incomplete, to put it mildly.
Every outfit has its men behind
the lines of almost every other
outfit. The Meos, the neutralists,
and the anti-Communists are
now cooperating, but the Chi
nese alone are to be found in
only one spot. All the other
forces make an interpenetrating
pattern of spots almost past
counting.
If this were anywhere but
Laos, you would therefore pre
dict a kind of general donny-
brook at an early date. In fact,
comparative peace now reigns.
In the last dry season, the Com
munists tried to destroy the neu
tralists and failed. They had a
whack at the anti-Communists
and were beaten off. They at
tempted to liquidate the Meos
with no success. And after these
additional flagrant violations of
the Geneva accord, they sat
back to lick their wounds.
AS if today, indeed, the Com
munist position is at least
marginally weaker than the po
sition of the Meo-neutraiist-anti-Communist
coalition. The road
from Viet Nam, which brings
supplies to the main Pathet Lao
forces in the Plaine des Jarres,
has been cut for a long time,
and they are even short of rice.
If the neutralist Prime Minister,
Prince Souvanna Phouma,
would give the order, the neu
tralists and anti-Communists
could probably clear the Plaine
des Jarres of all Pathet Lao
forces.
He is highly unlikely to give
such an order, however. In
stead, he has lately been nego
tiating with his brother, Prince
Souphanouvong, the Laotian
Communist front man. After
bounding out in a huff, Souplv
anouvong wants to rejoin the
government. Furthermore, there
are no signs whatever of Com
munist military buildup. Hence
the forecast is that the lunatic
compromise will creak along for
a while longer.
Yet there are two points that
must still be noted. Whatever
Washington may think, the Rus
sians have almost certainly lost
all power and authority here in
Laos. While they were the chief
suppliers of the Pathet Lao, as
they were until the Geneva ac
cord, the Soviets remained able
to call the tune. They lost that
ability when they the sole Com
munist faithful to Geneva cut
off their supply-airlift and gave
the planes to Prince Souvanna
Phouma's government.
THE Soviet embassy does not
even have representatives at
Khang Khay, where Prince
Souphanouvong has his head
quarters. Both the Chinese Com
munists and the North Vietna
mese meanwhile have more im
portant representation at Khang
Khay than here in Vientiane, the
official capital. Between them,
the North Vietnamese and Chi
nese now absolutely control the
Pathet Lao.
Futhermore, there is every
reason to believe that the Chi
nese rather than the Russians
now control the North Vietna
mese. Peking, in other words, is
now calling the tune here. The
absence of any buildup for fu
ture action rather clearly means
that for the present the tune is
not going to be aggressive.
But there is one more point
to note. The whole uneasy bal
ance here could be instantly up
set, and most of Laos could be
rolled up like a carpet, by the
mere incursion of another five
or ten thousand North Vietna
mese and-or Chinese troops.
That is a fact well worth remembering.
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modern weapons and thai u
should be free.
The U. S. position, according
to these reports, is that further
modernization of Spanish armed
forces should be Spanish ex
pense. Under terms of the agree
ment, negotiations for renewal
may continue six months after
the expiration date and if no
agreement is possible then the
bases should be vacated by the
end of the year.
No one expects this to happen
Although Spain is known to be
lieve she should have member
ship in NATO, Spanish officials
deny vehemently that NATO
membership also is a condition
of further use of the bases.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(o Field Enterprises, Inc.
CRACKPOT SOLUTIONS
It is pitifully easy, of course,
to laugh at crackpots and no
where more so than in a news
r. paper office,
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ed d a l . y by
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those defy i n g
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WlrS. mA deriding or de
spising, these
Harris obsessed crea
tures, and try to analyze their
motives, I think we find the
same basic drive in all of them:
the deep desire to bring order
out of chaos.
A crackpot is a person who is
looking for a guiding principle
in life. He wants to be able to
put his finger on one wheel in
the machinery of life, and say
"This is what makes everything
turn around."
He may think "the answer"
is to be found in the pyramids. "
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ever it mav be. he thinks the
world is all of a piece, and -that
he has found the key to it.
It is commendable that he '
looks for a guiding principle '
in life; most of us are too lazy -or
too pleasure-and-orofit-bcnt
to spend even a few moments
thinking about ultimate qucs-,
uons. in one sense, we are '
not good enough or serious
enough to become crackpots.
A fanatic," it has been .
saio, "is mere v a nerson who
seriously practices what we
only preach." Society, in one
respect, is indebted to its fa
natics for achieving what
"reasonable" people never
thought possible.
Where the crackpot goes
wrong, it seems to me, is in
failing to recognize the diver
sity of the wond.
One of the wonders of God
is His infinite originality. The
universe (as scientists are only
now beginning to discover) is
not a cold, mechanical opera
tion, but an organism of tre
mendous variety. When we get
into the heart of an atom, we
find that it has more freedom
than scientists of the past
ever imagined.
Fundamentally, the crackpot
is looking for a religion, being
unsatisfied with the traditional
Now, it is better to look for
a religion than to be unconcerned
about the questions it tries to
answer; out a religion cannot
be something smaller than man
and all the crackpot "solu
tions" solve only a fraction of
man's problems.
"In my Father's house are
many mansions" a certain book
tells US. as an enrlnrintr rpminrl
er wai aiversuy ana not uniform
ity, makes for goodness. Nobody
has exclusive possession of the
an ot living well otherwise,
the Potter would have seen to
it that all His pots were cracked
in the same way.
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