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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from fa file of Tha
Mail Tribun. 10. 20. 30. 40
and SO vun) age.
II YEARS AGO
Sept. . ISM (Sunday)
The third annual state con
ference of Alcoholics Anony
mous closed in Medford today.
H. Paul Kliss, leading actor
with the Oregon Shakespearean
theater in Ashland for the past
three seasons, has been engaged
as director of dramatic activ
ities for the Oumansky School
of Dance and Drama, Portland.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 20, 1043 (Monday)
irlne V.a',1 nn Nnrth Front St.
said robbed before fire; blaze
damages business nrms.
IP-nm Arthur Pprrv'R "
Smudge Pot" column: "There
will be no scrap mciai salvage
drive in Oregon and Washington
this tall, due 10 ueiay m gnui
cring up piles collected in first
one. When shipping same avidly
to Japan, no such delays were
encountered and it's closer to
Pittsburgh than Osaka."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 20, 1933 (Wednesday)
County charity to be available
only on Red Cross approval.
Crater lake highway surfacing
to start soon.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 20. 1923 (Thursday)
Restraining order issued to
prevent using Jackson school as
junior high school.
Horses at large in Table Rock
area do considerable damage.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 20. 1913 (Saturday)
Rails distributed along Main
st. for trolley line.
F. C. Elliott sole owner of Pan
torium Dye works.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten cornet ll supariat;
seven or tight it iceHent; five at
sia la good.
1. What shell fish is common
ly believed to be fit for human
consumption only in months
containing the letter "r"?
2. What is the official Rus
sian news agency called?
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe is
famous as the author of what
book?
4. What was the one word
that Poe's raven repeated?
5. If pen and ink cost sixty
cents, and the pen cost fifty
cents more than the ink, what
did the ink cost?
6. What game is sometimes
called "barnyard golf"?
7. Elephants drink through
their trunks; true or false?
8. A contagious disease is the
same is an infectious disease;
true or false?
9. Warren O. Harding was
President of the U.S.; for what
did the initial G. stand?
10. Does the Pacific Ocean
fnvar ahntit one-fourth, one-
third, or one-half of the earth's
surface?
Answers: 1. Oysters. 2. Tan.
3. L'ncle Tom'i Cabin. 4. "Nev
ermore". 5, Five cents. . Horse-
. I. vaL 1 Palest. I. Ha
VSjJJ-AMOCIATION
.... .. a
mallei. 10. One-third.
CHARGES DEDUCTED
NEWCASTLE, England (UPI)
A Irwal hnn.nwnftr noted lad-
ly that business fell off when
the city put parking meteri In
front of his store. Business his
picked up ever since hi tin ted
deducting thi parking chirgci
from the. customer'! bill.
SKPTfc.MBKR 20, MM
Prison Journalism
We have, on a number of occasions, visited
penal institutions in the course of reportorial
duties, and have a superficial knowledge of what
goes on inside them.
But no one who has not been confined as an
inmate in a jail or penitentiary or correctional
institution can really know, really understand,
what it is like. It is, in many ways, an entirely
different world, with a different set of attitudes
and customs and habits and traditions.
, It is not a pleasant world. But, because the
inmates are, after all, human beings, most of
them make the best of it, and in whatever ways
they can, strive to live as normal lives as possible
under the circumstances. This isn't easy.
rpHESE THOUGHTS came to mind this week
when we received several copies of "The
Forum," the weekly publication of the inmates
of the Penitentiary Unit of the Nebraska Penal
and Correctional Complex, in Lincoln, Neb. It
was sent to us by a former resident of Shady
Cove, who is associate editor.
He told us that he
great pride in producing
since he now is a subscriber to the Mail Tribune,
which he reads with interest, he thought we
would enjoy seeing The
It offers a glimpse
of us will (we hope) never live in, and into the
attitudes of the men who
OXE OF THE most interesting bits in the paper
uac un Arlitnrfsl iri'itfaor. taKnitf an inm'ila
HII - VS4iiVl 4UI It I. k. i I nuvrub la, 1 J 1 1 li 11 IV
who had been given permission to have an honor
leave to attend the funeral of his father, and
who had taken the occasion to escape.
The editorial commented:
"This act was the severest slap in the face ever felt by a
thousand men at the same time. The violation of trust ex
hibited by the escapee placed in critical jeopardy the most
precious privilege inmates have the privilege, not right, to
visit their immediate family in times of severe illness and
death. This privilege is considered to be the most com
passionate extension of understanding ever granted men be
hind walls."
That was written by the new editor, who was
taking over after several years as assistant, when
the former editor was to be released.
rpnh JfUUMLK editor
icresi, too. He points out tnat prison jour
nalism is "similar to nothing else on the face of
the earth."
Among other things, the editor of a prison
newspaper, he said, must remember "that he
works not only for himself, but the inmate body
and their interests, hoping that through this
weekly medium he will somehow reach someone
with a shocking eye-opener, perhaps enabling
him to adopt a new philosophy."
He adds:
"No matter how much journalistic education or experience
the prison editor may have had in the free-world, he is never
taught the queer style of writing necessary to successfully
run a penal publication. ... In short, this style of writing
is that in which the editor says something, while really not
laying it at all. His statements necessarily have to be so
clouded by subtleties that on the surface the text means
something entirely different from what was intended. If this
seems like double-talk, well, just chalk it up to frustration . . .
"This has not been an easy assignment for us, especially
when one stops to consider that the editor must ride a very
high fence between the administration and the general popu
lation . . . We can only say that we sincerely tried to benefit
the cause that the inmates generally demand; bridging the
still-existing gap between the two, completely opposite
societies."
LIE ADDS that much remains to be done, large-
ly because of apathy or disinterest among
the inmates. And he concludes:
"Until the day arrives that inmates will consciously stop
to recognize and assume the total of their self-made debt,
ind then do something about it, then neither we nor any of our
successors can ever successfully assist any inmate to adopt
i progressive philosophy, promote a just cause for the ma
ligned, or influence our guardians and free counterparts to
take I more interested hand in the affairs of we who have
strayed . . ."
How effective this "rare journalism" is in
effecting changes among the prison population
is open to debate. But it must certainty have an
effect on the individuals who practice this form
of writing. The mere act of thinking through
and writing an editorial such as the one ex
cerpted above is an act of contrition and cour
age, in the circumstances faced by the writer.
rpHE REST of the issue includes a couple of
columns, snorts cnvprsurp (thp nrison All.
Stars defeated the Offutt
i I l. ..II o n :.. irt.
in u.isuuiui, o iu i in iu innings;, news in prison
staff personnel, reports on a musical-comedy pre
sented by inmates, news of a recent escape and
recapture of an inmate (Floyd Running Hawk
"flew the coop," was apprehended 15 hours later,
, . . ' . . . .. ' i a . .. ..u ...i n , .1 a
and IS now HI the "maximum security COOp" , lnidom T , M ' "",,
i ...i...., .. . . ..' . , "ends meet because we cannot
ana cieiaus oi volunteers
search.
The newspaper varies from chatty and hu-!
morous to philosophical. It reflects in larirel
measure the hopes awd
nn f, on tr. ,..
a -II C UHJ.-IIUCU OUWCIJ, .Will JCl Y 110
sun reiain an me leeungs mai nee men possess.
We are certain that the nrison would be a
poorer place without The
and his colleagues take
the weekly paper, and,
Forum. We do, indeed
into a world which most
must make the best of it.
s valedictory was of in-
Air Force Base team i
. .
assisting in meilical re
despairs of men who arc'
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Forum. E. A. ,
"Of Course, I Abhor Violence Have A
Book Of Campaign Matches, Bud"
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... Communications ...
Letters to the Editor musl
cartain circumstances . the use
The Mail Tribune reserves
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the Tiews of the paper; in fact the
contrary is oiten the case.
Don't Want Children I lature go back and figure ways . men. Go to your slum areas
To the Editor: What would the to eet our monev: make them I and spp the conditions that some
residents of Medford do if a
family in their own city were
to have quintuplets? Would they
make sure of the. children hav
ing diapers and college? I
imagine they would, and some
times I wonder. We have been
looking for a decent home to
rent for the last two weeks,
and have looked at some that
aren't suitable. But do you
know what the most asked ques
tion is when you say "Have
you rented your home yet?" It
is "How many children have
you?" In our case, five very
well behaved children. The usu
al reply is that they don't want
that many children in their
house, not always that the house
is too small, but 85 per cent
of the people just won't rent to
large families. I guess it's be
cause someone before has lett
quite a mess. But what of the
large families who do a good
job of taking care of other peo
ples homes?
I've been in larger places than
Medford, and haven't faced this
problem quite this severely.
Also, where do the homeowners
think the majority of the rent
ers work? We sure don't work
in the gold mines. This is one
of the highest rental districts
I've ever seen, for what the
local industry has to offer, and
I'm sure if you were to take a
survey you'd find that is true.
Robert Steele,
P.O. Box 373,
Medford
Man On the Moon
To the Editor: Writers of love
songs will be in for a pretty
tough time the day a man lands
on the moon. He may turn out
to be an American with a large
family and no longer inclined to
wards romance. I look forsvard
In swinn a rliffprpnt Ivnp of Invp
song being written with no
words rhyming with moon.
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White Citv, Ore.
Dollar Value
To the Editor: It seems our
esteemed legislators do not
Know wny im- 'J: 1 ' J , ' 1
a . inrrtuu, k inn nf Innks llkp .
u , . '. i . j u ..
nry nwiu
me ia.pnei.t wanu-u ui-iuii:
they spent all that time and
money dreaming up this mess,
and therein, I believe, lies the
answer to their big question.
You don't give your son $10 to
spend until he proves to you that
he wisely spent the last $5 you
gave him, even though he need
ed $7.50.
nnen me ..r uuu.-.
money and shows us proof thai
they got dollar for dollar value
out of what we have given tnem.
we will give them enough to do
their job witn. is it so mmpe
that the taxpayers are finally
using a little control over their
hired help?
What is all of this trash about
the various state agencies cut
ting their services! How can
they cut their services now,
when the $no million increase is
not due or available to he used
""'Lr.1' Tlr.?
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year's taxes now. putting us
that much more behind next
year? Sounds like the proverbial
snowball doesn t it
. A rt t., ,.
our money and make cuts here
demand an extra thousand from
someone, so we think it's time
the legislature and state took a
mneurTm
ire not tryir
onomics
mg to scare the
''RSll"1's ni'r- Wf r,"""
ising. promising that until wi
: ising, promising that until we
Jnown , ,n(t ,
ire shown in black and while wc
ire getting our money's worth
we ire not going to continue
feeding that bottomless pit.
Taxpayers: don't let thlegis-
MLDFOKD MAIL TKIBUNE. .MEDFORD. OREGON
0
bear tha name and address of
of a pen namt or initial
the right to edit all letters with
go back without pay and find a
, way to get along on the millions
j we nave already given inem
Raymond D. Roberts
1127 Saling
Medford.
Parents Responsibility
To the Editor: At last you are
beginning to ask "What Do Vot
ers Want?" (MT 9 1563). You
may be opening a whole new
world of valuable information. I
would like to suggest a few an
swers to your legitimate ques
tion: Where, why and how does a
state of less than 2,000,000 people
spend $405,000,000? No one sug
gests the $405 million is not jus
tified, but too many legislators
do not know if this amount is
truly justified; and it is not ir
responsible for the voters to
want to know and if the legis
lators did not know, from whom
can the voters get such informa
tion? ' More participation in, more
cooperation with the educators
(administrators and teachers).
In a previous editorial last week,
you hit upon a most pernicious
error when you wrote, in effect
education of children is the re
sponsibility of the teachers. No!
the primary responsibility of ed
ucating children belongs, by na
ture, to parents. This responsi
bility is grave and is not fulfilled
by a mere acquiescent nod of
the head when the bill for educa
tion is presented. The whole
case as you and other spokes
men have been stating it seems
to state that education is so
complex, so involved, mere par
ents cannot comprehend either
its methods, aims or cost. (In
other words. "Pay the bill and
be silent"). You seem capable of
registering onlv contempt for
anyone who dares to request an
intelligible accounting of state
expenditures. especially in edu
cation. This is not to implv funds I
are being mis-used; but the re-1
sponsibility for the expenditures
lies with the voters i usually par- j
ents). Why must you be contin-
ually berating them for wanting
to acknowledge and live up to
this responsibility?
Also, if the voters were to take
vou, the spokesmen for educa
. ' '
t'on, at your word, a large, or
anv cut in education will immcd-
iately reduce students in genera!
i ih. in. i nf -..j pf !
course that is a little, ah. ex-.
(remc. poem in your paper on Friday, pinto a tizzy, and she wound up
When education is trulv short ! sPt- 20- 0nc Wr "Ro this j in a psychiatric hospital con
of necessary funds the parents I da,e ', s- -'a Coffman, wife j fused, disturbed and unsure of
will be the first to make the I of Ilie Coffman at Jacksonville, ! just about everything except
needed funds available. Parents, ; mxl away. I wrote this poem that she missed her dog.
when thev know of a real need ;
fur their children are seldom '
f(mn() (, skj r.lthe. ,np ,on
donn. js , v(,r do .
K may lake a defeat of the tax
K.n ,th 3 c,ilw.uirtnt i
. , s,atP "rMH,njIIllrps to i
vour unh jn pamMS (vo,.
ers).
Robert J. Howard
702 Bookman st.
Medford.
All Human
To llie Editor: In answer to
the letter written Sept. tri by a
Mr. Ralph McKinnis, who pre
sumably (eels he earned his
right to feel so superior.
The Negro is a human, with
hpnri and soul, who feels
, . l . - i i.
ioe, naie, sorruw anu nainn-1
ne.-s. just as the white man No
wan van ciiooM1 uie coiur oi ins
Ukm or his nationahtv. To judge
. . . ,. - ,
him because of these things is 1
stupid and ignorant. 1
To be sure, there are bad
Negroes and also bad whites.
There are also money hungry ; While another just beside you neighbor was having troubles of
and power hungry Jews and j Gathers honor, love and health her own. Her dog was off its
again the same applies to the j Vain to choose or grasp un- feed and was acting in I strange
whites. I duly, manner
Look around you, at your su- i Broken is the perfect ball i "So she was having her psv
perior white race, before you j And there ire so many pieces chiatrist in even- other day io
condemn all others. Read in No one ever finds them ill. see what might be done to bring
your newspaper ibout the Laun Fittig Coulter , the dog back its normal self.'"
crimes committed by white! Guilali, Cihf. I What world!
Spain and
Directions
By PHIL KEWSOM
L'PI Foreign News Analyst
LISBON, Portugal Spain
and Portugal, the two nations
which occupy the Iberian Pen
insula, are go
ing in opposite
directi o n s
Africa.
The Spanish
regime of Gen-
e r a 1 1 s s i mo
Francisco
Franco, moving
cautiously to-
IJSaJ
w a r d greater
participation in
world affairs and seeking to
soften its image as a dictator
ship before the world, is acting
to improve its relations with
the new nations of Africa.
As such it is talking autonomy
for Spanish Guinea.
In contrast is the embattled
Portuguese regime of Premier
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, de
termined to retain its holdings
as the largest remaining Eu
ropean power in Africa
Salazar has dismissed as of
minor consequence either trade
the writer, although under
for publication is permissible.
a view to clarification and
whites live in. Because they
have no choice, you say. But
then that's true of the Negro.
too. Given a chance to live as
equals, they will live up to it,
as any human would do. And
after all, sir, isn't our country
made up of many races? The
only pure American was the
copper skinned Indian, as far
as I know. Even the Pilgrims
were foreigners here at one
time.
I have known Negroes and , which carries the local post
have found that they are a ; mark. The amounts varv from a
friendly, kindly people, very sin-'
cere and gentle as a rule. 1
have gone to school with Negro
children, who, though patched
and mended, were cleaner than
some white children. Their
homes, though poor, were clean
and neat.
On the other hand, I've also
known white people, who, by the
way, feel as you do about the
Negroes. These same people live
their lives sponging off anyone
who will help them, giving nolh
ing in return. They live in filth
and squalor, with no personal
pride in themselves or what
little belongs to them. Discon
tented, they move from one
place to another, leaving piles
of unpaid bills behind them.
These same people feel that the
"filthy niggers" should be wiped
off the face of the earth. To
me it just doesn't make much
sense.
It might be that some white
men are afraid to give the
Negro an equal chance because
they may prove that they aren't
inferior and then who would
there be for the white man to
look down on?
So. Mr. McKinnis. don't throw
up your hands in despair. Just
wait a while and give it a
chance. It will take a long time
but you may find that this
country will be a better place
to live in when a man is judged,
not by his color or nationality,
but by the good he does and
what he makes of his life. Just
relax, open your mind and
watch We are all human be-
mgs, even you
Joyce Williams.
Route 1. Box 4111.
Central Point. Ore
m vieinoriam
To the Editor: Would
vou
P,(,asc Pr'nt this letter and this
J". memory ol Lola, my dear
,rlpn" a"o scnoot nays cnum
wnen we auencieo scnoois n tne
Applegate and Ruch. Ore.
ll;innirpss j: tikp a prvvtl
Fair, exquisite and clear
j Brokcn in , ,
million pieces
j Shattered, scattered far and
near big headlines will sell a lot of
Now and then along life's path- papers.
way i As a result, Kiki was found
Lo! Some shining fragments ; and restored to her owner,
fall I whose doctors agree that the re-
Rut there are so many pieces turn of her dog "may help her
No one ever finds them all. j greatlv to regain her grip on re
J ality."
Yet the wise, as on their jour-
ney, j IN CONCLUSION-
Treasure every fragment clear, At a meeting in Portland
Fit them as they may together the other dav. I sat next to a
Imagining the shattered sphere,
I parninu o pr In hp IhunL-fnl
Though their share of it
' ......
is
",IB11
For it has so many pieces
,nr fin.i it,pm i
No one ever finds them all.
Vou may find a bit of beauty
Or an honest share of wealth
Portugal Going in Different
in Attitude Toward Africa
or diplomatic boycott of Portu
gal by independent African na
tions. He has declared instead that
Portugal will fight to the last to
retain its place in Africa.
Spain and Portugal have been
bound in the Iberian Pact since
1939, but it pledges them to
mutual defense only in the met
ropolitan areas of the two na
tions, and not in Africa.
Last May 14 and 15, Salazar
and Franco met in a Spanish
tourist inn in the town of
Merida.
In Portugal the subject of
their conversations has been
kept a close secret.
But in Spain it was widely oe
lieved Franco urged upon Sala
zar African reforms consider
ably more far-reaching than
tiiose in the new work code
placing Negroes upon an equal
footing with Portuguese workers
and in the organic law giving
Angolans a greater voice in
their own affairs.
In Spain there also is concern
lest the sudden loss ol Portu
j guese overseas territories create
a crisis and perhaps upheaval
at home which would pose a
threat on Spain's own borders.
Whatever the subject of the
meeting, it seemed scarcely co
incidental that a new wave of
arrests followed in Portugal,
most of them labelled Commu-
j nist.
In any discussion of the Portu
j
I "
In jhg Ray r NgUK
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By FRANK JENKINS
Mishmash in the news
The little town of Dodgeville.
! ZZT u lmou.
j anonymously through the mail
I to various persons, many of
them aged, who in his opinion
have a REAL NEED FOR
.MONEY.
How does he pick his bene
ficiaries? Nobody knows. The money
just arrives in a nlain pnvplnnp
few dollars to a hundred dollars.
rrHE word is getting out, and
Editor John Miller of the
Dodgeville Chronicle says he is
getting letters from all over the
country asking how the writers
can get on the list. They ask him
to pass on their names and ad
dresses to the "mysterious
fairy."
Editor Miller says he wishes
he knew the address, and adds
that if he did he'd try for some
of the money on his own ac
count. IT'S turning out to be a weird
business, the Dodgeville edi
tor says.
Some people are using the
method to MAKE DONATIONS
TO CHARITABLE CAUSES
WITHOUT GETTING ON A
MAILING LIST.
Which is to say:
These people sincerely want
to help good causes, but they
don't want the word to get out
fearing that they will b e
swamped with requests for
money from all over the coun
try. A I ANY Dodgeville people, Edi
tor Miller reports, are being
asked to pay old debts either
long forgotten, or NEVER IN
CURRED. In other words, rack
eteers are getting into the game,
hoping that people sillv enough
to be giving monev awav would
be silly enough to fall for the
alleged debt racket.
rpiIEN there's the case of Kiki,
the missing poodle down in
the Bay Area. Kiki had been left
by her owner, a 45-year-old
blonde divorcee, in the car.
When her mistress came back
there was no Kiki.
The shock sent Kiki's owner
I 1 1 Lit sad case got into tne
i " hp nra tiuiws uh rh :
the newspapers which, as
evenbody knows, are public
benefactors, ever anxious to help
those in distress and also (es
pecially in our big metropolitan
I cities) ever anxious for a good
story that when played under
distinguished citizen of Oreaon
uhn Viae pitiouj in c... ,,....-. r .1;
11Ui1wuuiniw.wmnuMdii-
fornia I asked him how all was
going in his new location.
He replied, in substance:
"Well, when I left to come
i back up here for a few days our
neighborhood was in something
o( an uproar Our next door
guese and Spanish attitudes to
ward Africa, the Portuguese are
quick to point out that Portu
guese problems are different.
And they are. Beyond Snanish
Guinea, Spain also holds Uni, a
fishing enclave, the Spanish Sa
hara and the northern garrison
towns of Ceuta and Melilla
where 50.000 crack Spanish
troops are stationed.
Spanish sources say Spain
would fight to hold Ceuta anil
Melilla but otherwise has little
interest.
To Build Prosperity Jk
We Need Chiselers
By Arthur Hoppe tlVJ
Everybody is very much con- have. To install automation,
cerned with the Poor People. I Ah, well, I never did under
Here in America we've got mil- stand economics. But I still like
lions and millions of Poor Peo-1 The Trickle Down on Them The
pie who can't get jobs and real- j ory. It seems to fit in so well
ly have it tough. But at last we with our whole humanitariaa
people who do have jobs and credo these days:
live reasonably well arc going I "Let your conscience be your
to do something about it. SwAe- Bllt d0"'1 get caught."
e re going to cut our taxes.
I know it's a terrible sacri
fice, but I'm proud to report
most Americans seem willing
to make it. And even our con
gressmen stand ready to go
along. Let the chips fall where
they may.
The idea is Mr. Kennedy's.
He says that if we W'cll - off
Americans gird our loins and
cut our taxes $11 billion, we'll
, ' '""c j'V , , "V
lvinE around that some of its
bound to wind up in the hands
of the Poor People.
Now I don't understand eco
nomics. But I believe this is
what economists call: "The Tri
ckle Down on Them Theory."
Personally, I'm highly in fa
vor of The Trickle Down on
Them Theory. The whole idea
of paying less taxes in order to
help the Poor People is enough
to make a devout humanitarian
out of me.
But as a devout homanitarian,
I wonder if our government is
going far enough. Do not we hu
manitarians have a duty as in
dividuals to do our utmost on
behalf of this humanitarian pro
gram? Say along about next
April 15?
There you are. staring hap
pily at your Form 10-10. Will
you include your basset hound
in your list of dependents? Or
won't you? Resist temptation, I
say. Include him. Do you real
ize the $(100 exemption you'll
get for him is enough to sup
ply 11.793 fishhook to 47 hun
gry Navajo Indians in the
Great Mojave Desert? Let us.
at a time like this, think of
others.
And, above all, be charitable.
Especially when you get to
"Charitable D e d uctions" on
Page Two. Did you slip $20 into
the Poor Box at your neighbor
hood church this year? Be mag
nanimous. Make it $200. Remem
ber: It is far better to give
on Page Two so as to receive
on Line 19. Pane One. (Tax Due
or Refund). After all. the Poor
People are counting on your
charity.
All the charity you can get
away with.
Expense accounts? Profits and
Losses? Capital Gains? Try to
approach these subjects with a
full heart, sympathy for the un
fortunate and two sets of books..
... .
These are but a few of the
i modest sacrifies anv humani
; tarian should be eager to make
for the Poor People. It is. after
all, the least we can do. And
I can only hope that there will
be a few saints among us who
will be so moved by the plight of
our cold and hungry unemploy
ed that they will make the su
preme sacrifice, comparable to
the self - immolation of t h e
Buddhists: They'll pour gaso
line over their Form 1040s and
set them afire.
So let's all pitch in and cheat
like mad so the Poor Peoole can
get jobs. Because under The
Trickle Down on Them Theory
the more we save on taxes the ' ing and perspective. In the end,
more things we'll buy. And the , nobodv is more deluded and de
more things we buy, the more i feated than the man who builds
money our businessmen will ! his life on facts.
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cbri, 'A ft i &
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"Pt, young lady, would ou like to buy i bunch of
ulographrd, Sinatra albums? '
For Portugal, the African
overseas territories not only are
a source of national pride. They
also provide outlets for Portu
guese exports and for Portugal's
excess population. Through ar
rangements with Lisbon, they
also are a source of foreign ex
change. And finally there is another
worry. Said one Portuguese:
"To have 450,000 settlers
thrown back on Portugal would
mean chaos."
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci Field Enterprises, Inc.
Tit IK FACTS"
A reader has suggested lhal I
incorporate in my next
j;
prejn-
t m.ud
column
paracraoh
about the use of
the phrasn
"true facts."
He insists, and
properly, that
this redundan-
cy is a com-
jmon error.
since anything
jjthat is really a
ipci nas 10 Da
Harri "true." Gram
matically speaking, he is cor
rect. We use many redundan
cies in speech and writing: some
of them come out of ignorance
or sloppiness or the felt need
for emphasis. A few, like "trua
facts." can be defended.
W hy does anyone say he wants
the "true facts" instead of mere
ly "the facts"? What he means,
I think, is that he wants moro
than the fads he wanls tha
true significance underlying
them.
We all know hnw master
We all know how inaslor
propagandists, orators, politic
ians and special pleaders c m
lake facts (all of them true mi
themselves) and glue thorn to
gether to give a totally false
picture of a situation.
All of us, at times, have
been overwhelmed in conver
sations with persons who seem
to have all the facts about a
particular problem in their
possession. They can rattle
them off glibly: and yet their
position and conclusions do
not satisfy us.
This is because facts do not
satisfy us. We are often in
the strange position of believ
ing them to be true and false
at the same time: they may
be true in a physical sense,
false in their implications or
in the values they seem to
carry.
It is a fact, for instance,
that Lincoln suffered from in
volutional melancholia and some
times contemplated suicide.
What can we do with such a
fact?
His political enemies might
use it to indict his sanity or
stability, but we rightly reject
this indictment because it tells
us little about his true charac
ter. And adding up all the facts
about an individual still does
not give us the essence of his
personality.
Grammarians may sneer at
the phrase, "true facts," but
this only because thev are not
psychologists, and fail to see be-
j neath the words into a deep hu
! man huncer for value and mean
Si . NJ