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Medford and Jackson County
History from the flics of Tha
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1953 (Wednesday)
Cross-cxaminalion of Califor
nia Oregon Power company Vice
President Harlan P. Bosworth
Jr. of Medford held the attention
of this morning's utility rate
hearing, with emphasis on the
difference between the residen
tial and commercial rates.
The 15th polio case in Jackson
county this year was reported
yesterday to the county health
department.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1943 (Thursday)
John Day buys 2,300 acre
ranch in Tolo area.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The he
eira of mighty nimrods to the
high hills for the opening shots
at the deer and whatever else
moves in the tall timber is now
under way."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30. 1933 (Saturday)
Large bear killed In Williams
Creek district while trying to
steal pig.
Marc Jarmin to open new
drugstore on North Central ave.
JO YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1023 (Sunday)
Firo at Ed Hanley ranch at
Jacksonville, caused by explo
sion, does $5,000 damage.
Farmers along Bear creek
warn bird hunters not to tres
pass. 50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1913 (Tuesday)
Federal experts to study pear
industry in valley.
Four big reels of photoplays
scheduled at Star theater; ad
mision 10 cents.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or tan correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Where are the remains of
the late Gen. John J. Pershing
buried?
2. Manxmen are natives of
what island?
3. U. S. 10 cent pieces are sold
silver; true or false?
4. "Gat" is an underworld
term for what weapon?
5. Is the capital of Egypt at
Cairo, or Alexandria?
6. Does a major general rank
above, or below, a lieutenant
general?
7. Name Uie tallest animal.
8. Other things being equal, Is
It ea.sicr to lift a weight with a
small, or a large pulley?
9. What Is Uie name of the
Island in Hawaii on which the
state capitol is located?
10. There are four states
which are known as common
wealths; name them.
Answers: 1. Arlington Nation
al Cemetery, i. The hie of Man.
3. False (90 per cent), 4. Gun.
I. Cairo. I. Below 7. Giraffe.
t. Large. 9. Oahu. 10. Kentucky.
Massachusetts, Pennsylva n I a,
Virginia;
SEPTEMBER 30, 1963
The Business Ethic
The "business ethic" to which our leaders
of commerce often refer in exalted terns some
times seems as phony as a department store San
ta Ciaus.
Frequently equated with the "Christian ethic,"
the business code of morality in the United States
has, granted, progressed considerably from the
days of the Robber Barons. But such changes,
more often than not, were the result of federal
legislation, rather than from any internal desire
of business to clean up its own house.
All in the last few years, cases of anti - trust
suits and arrests for price-fixing only serve to re
mind us that practice has not yet completely lived
up to principles.
A MEDFORD businessman recently advertised
wirlolv in rho mprlin that, hp had "Inst, his
lease" and was, hence,
greatly reduced prices.
It all sounded pretty legitimate. After all,
if a store has lost its lease and has either to
move to a new location or go out of business,
chances are good that some real bargains might
be available. .
We have no way of
particular businessman
prices, or whether he had
buying public.
But we do know, on
in point of fact this particular merchant is not go
inir out of business, is not losing his lease, is not
changing the operations
ly.
It's all legal (this has been investigated) of
course, and on a technicality, the merchant can
claim to be doing what he says.
AS WE understand it, the businessman in ques
tion has been the sole owner of the store,
which he recently decided to "sell" to a corpora
tion, retaining one-third interest. His lease, at
that point, is, technically, "lost," and becomes the
property of the corporation. Virtually the same
goods will be sold at that same location in the
future.
In effect, then, he lost his lease, but didn't
lose his lease ; he is going out of business, but he
isn't going out of business ; he is changing his op
eration, but he isn't changing his operation.
We submit, in view of the facts, that his ad
vertising is grossly unethical, and was designed
no matter how he wants to split it to mislead
the public.
He has indirectly cast a shadow of doubt and
mistrust on reputable Medford businesses that do
hold legitimate sales. This is not the way to in
still public confidence and patronage in the
downtown area. G.H.B.
Wheat
Trade
The failure of the Russian wheat crop this
year has given rise to a fascinating situation,
which again seems to involve in a different
sense the business ethic.
Canadian businessmen, quick to sense an op
portunity to turn a fast profit, negotiated a deal
with the Soviets for the sale of about $500 mil
lion worth of Canadian wheat.
Speculators in this
bling to see if they can climb aboard the gravy-train.
And so the rest of the
the world, is being treated to the interesting spec
tacle of seeing the midwest wheat farmer, long
the bastion of violent anti-Communist and iso
lationist sentiment, suddenly in the position of
doing business with the Reds.
WE REGARD the proposed sale of wheat to
the Russians as a good thing, one which can
have only the best ot consequences.
First and foremost,
fed. The Communist bosses, the real cause of our
problems with the Russians, and not the people,
certainly are not going
there is a food shortage.
But the common Russian people will, and it
is with them that a transaction of this sort, if
properly publicized, might
will.
What belter way of demonstrating that cap
italism works and works abundantly than
by selling our SURPLUS wheat to them?
And, of course, no one is going to object
strongly if some people in this country make a
nice profit, particularly if the money gets spread
around a bit.
DUT THE funny part of
from watching the
wheat belters and the go-between speculators j
squirm around in an attempt to justify the trans-
action. j
One South Dakota wheat farmer was quoted
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",lUH U 1 " ". '"K
arently the Russians
have to put aside our hostilities and help those
who are less well off.
What a supreme Statement of generosity and ;
goodwill. One might be tempted to admire it, ex-i
cept for the clear and unmistakable false note,
Would that same
wonders, be so magnanimous and eager to trade
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Willi Uie VAiuiiuuiiiM.s u
such as cotton which
a profit on, were involved? G.H.B.
Now that summer is finally here, it is instruc
tive to remember that there are 71 shopping days
until Christmas. K.A. ,
forced to sell his stock at
knowing whether this
actually reduced his
much response from the
reliable autnonty, tnat
of his store substantial
Ethic
country are now scram
nation, and the rest of
hungry people will be
to suffer substantially if
create enormous good
the whole thing comes jy
staunch conservative!
" ciavc rJlc'"'.T ' M' .
are short. Sometimes we j
farmer, one inevitably
Kiiiiit' inner ClilIlllllHtliy
he didn't stand to makeicision during these two weeks
"You Mean Help
One
Communications
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although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
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paper, in fact the contrary is often the case.
Study Ourselves speakers. Then one day they
To the Editor: I noted with
considerable interest a letter in
Sept. 20's paper. Someone has
taken you to task for giving the
wrong title to a man.
This reminds me of a little
10-year-old girl down at Or
land, Calif. She was walking by
a certain church. The pastor
was out in front. "Hello Mister
Boland," she cheerfully said.
The clergyman quickly replied,
When you address me you are
to call me, father." The little
miss quickly replied. "My Bi
ble says that I should call no
man father."
Now I do not write these lines
to cast disprcspect on any one.
The little girl mentioned told
me this story herself. She is
not a member of the church 1
attend, but I believe her to
be a Christian.
The question comes, who was
right, the little lass or the cler
gyman? For our answer we
should go to God's Holy book,
the Bible. 1 have a Cruden's
Concordance and really found it
interesting to look under some
of Ihe references under the
word "father."
Frankly I would also appreci
ate some comment from some of
your readers. I'm a busy man.
As close as I can estimate from
the concordance there must be
over 2.0(10 texts in the Holy Bi
ble which mention the word
"father."
1 am interested in the text
or texts giving use the author
ization to address our pastor's
as "father." 1 know that this
is a widespread practice. Yet
we need a Bible answer. I'm
not interested in some vague re
plies. Our answers to questions
of a spiritual nature should be
based on God's word as record
ed for us in His Holy Bible.
Many even of you readers do
not argue with this statement.
However the writer of these
lines has explicit confidence in
God's Holy Book.
All, including infidels, agnos
tics, atheists, heathens and
Christians face the fact that
someday they will die. Our cem
eteries attest to this fact. The
writer knows of only one mes
sage of hope that points to a
life and a hope beyond the
grave. Thai message comes to
us direct from God through His
Son. II is recorded for us in
the Holy Bible. We must study
for ourselves. Man's ideas and
traditions should never replace
God's word. Preconceived ideas
mnv not Harmonize, we must
study to show ourselves
proved unto God."
Henry Johnson, ,lr.
2315 Highway fit;,
Ashland. Ore
Campus Letter
To the Editor: I received this
letter a short lime ago from
my daughter who was attending
summer school at Berkeley. I
thought it interesting enough for
our Communications section.
Mrs. G. S. Jennings
211) Sacinaw dr.
Medford
GoinR onlo mpi ,
Berkeley really shocked me 1
had heard it was a "hot spot"
for liberals, but did not realize
the extent of it until I saw it
with my own eyes. Every single
day that I was there, they had
either signs up, or were handing
out literature, or had beatnik
speakers expounding their ideas,
''; doni
jre Tw 3v
ationr. for I
As 1 said
shocked'!!
If I hadn't already decided to
'vcr'hin in m.y
fmht socialism, lm sure li
WnH have arrived at that de-!
Let me give vou examples. For
several days they had huge
posters advertising the Summer
School of Socialism where the
theory of Marxism would be ex -
plained. Listed on the posters
were the meeting placet time,
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
Americans Twice in
Year?"
nad a booth up and were hand'
ing out literature and taking
contributions for a civil rights
march. Another day they had
their booth set up and were
handing out information en
couraging disarmament . . .
who to write to in Congress to
encourage them to support the
bill for more money for the dis
armament agency. They even
had postcards and stamps for
people wanling to write right
away.
Then one noon a beatnik got
a large crowd around him as he
made fun of America. Every
one was laughing at him, etc.,
but got quiet and more serious
when he said, "Patriotism,
that's a farce, a joke"! I'm sure
this went on the rest of the noon
hour, but it almost made me
sick to listen to him, so I left.
Then yesterday there were
large posters telling about the
meeting place for the Commit
tee to Uphold the Right to
Travel (the committee support
ing tne students that went to
Cuba against the State Depart
ment's orders not to.)
A scarey thing about this all
is that it is so well organized.
The posters were up and down
on time (no poster up for a
meeting that had already been
held, etc.) and every day some
thing different. And there was
nothing conservative to counter
act all this propaganda. I'm
really afraid that with this
going on every day around
them, that the students will
start getting used to this stuff
and will start accepting it.
Nancy Pittman
50 Seward ave.
San Francisco, Calif.
Park "Grab"
To the Editor: We welcome
a visit of our President to Ore
gon, and extend warm wishes
to the whole family to romp and
enjoy the entire 100 miles of
Oregon beaches, so highly de
veloped to recreation, by t h e
Forest Service, state, counties
and other cooperant agencies,
averaging a modern tourist fa
cility every eight miles. I am
positive after actually seeing
and knowing the true facts he
would brand, as did ex-Congressman
Durno. a National Park
grab to he ridiculous.
In a mad world of today, North
American inhabitants are facing
instant death and destruction by
foreign countries, and are fac
ing internal racial war, caused
by fermentation of dregs from
the Civil War of lMil to 1868. in
ap. i which nearly 4 million men per
j ished. How many are doomed
in the coming fracas?
j It appears the present internal
fomentation was stirred by the
' Kennedy administration. Is it
logical and sound for a Presi
dent to be flitting about in the
air i park hunting), to cause
more strife and loss of popular
ity to himself and the Demo
crat party, joining a naive ideal
istic group on a plane ride down
the Oregon Coast, lo select by
a seagull's eye view a vast land
grab for the power zealot, Sec.
I'dall of Department o( Interior,
under the guise of National
Park ism sponsored by a lady
Senator simply to satisfy her
own selfish ego?
The lady is well aware that
three Senate and one Congres
sional committee hearings and
thousands of resolutions and let
ters to Legislators proved over
j "'"'"R "PI''' to National
Parkism in Oregon. Ex-Con
gressman Porter scuttled his po
litical career. Why allow the
President to scuttle his popular
ity and the party in such ridic
ulous frivolous affairs that the
citizens of Oregon do not want?
Our President has more than
, he is qualified to handle now.
! A Russian black bear tail in one
; nana, a racial niacK near tan
; in the other, the fate of our
1 nation on his shoulders, yet a
, naive Senator would dump in
his (ace thousands of w'ild,Ore-
OREGON
Foreiqn News: British Elections
By Next Spring; Labor Confident of Win
' T, , i n: vtinictae UarnM Mar. hiprarchv and are in a nnsitinn
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the Foreign News
Cables:
No Boat-Rocking
The British Labor party is
confident it already has won
the next election and now
doesn't want to
rock the boat.
Therefore, its
annual confer
ference this
week at Scar
borough is ex
pected to be
devoid of fire
works unless
party maver
S""0I icks decide to
press for clear-cut statements
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c Field Enterprises inc.
OPPOSITES COMBINED
The distinguishing mark of a
good mind, it seems to me, is
the ability to hold two conflict
ing ideas at the
same time, and
to be dominat
ed by neither.
This is- ex
tremely hard to
do. Con sider
the two proposi
tions: "Every
body is differ
e n t" and
Harris "Everybody is
pretty much the same." I be
lieve that both these statements
are true, and that a realistic
view of life consists in holding
them in balance at all times.
If we are dominated only by
the first proposition, "Everybody
is different," we become the
most arrant kind of individualist.
If we overstress the uniqueness
of the individual, we ignore the
fact that man's nature is basic
ally social. The consequences of
such a view are usually despot
ism, oligarchy, or fascism.
If we are dominated liy the
second proposition, "Every
body is pretty much the same,
we become the most insensi
tive kind nf collectivism If we
overstress the common denom
inator of mankind, we ignore
the fact that it is the spirit
of individuality thai gives
meaning and flavor and de
light to human existence, ihe
consequences of such a view
are often mass mediocrity,
sheepish subservience, and
communism.
Proust, in his general novel
remarks that "The universe is
the same for all of us, and dif
ferent for each of us." The
same for all of us we have
the same needs, the same
gon bob cats, who are fighting
off National Parkism.
There are limits to what a
man can endure. He is a human
being, not a super man. And we
Oregonians do have equal rights
also, the right to own homes
unmolested, to enjoy our recrea
tion areas without regimenta
tion or monopoly of a sacred
white cow of National Parkism
as a front to Department of In
terior land grabs.
Democrat committees should
form in echelon to wave off safe
ly the President before he pan
cakes his popularity and that of
the party.
H. W. Bryson
700 Tipton rd.
Roseburg, Ore.
Early Fligiits
To the Editor: Here is a Uni
ted Press report of March 23,
1010. Clipping is from a South
Dakota newspaper:
"World's Record in Airship."
French Lieutenant carries 15,
000 pounds of soldiers nearly
mile a minute.
Paris Lieutenant Brequet
with an airplane carried eleven
(11) soldiers, who weighed 15,
000 pounds, and the feat estab
lished the use of the airplane in
war, in carrying scouting par
ties. It was in the year 1910 when
the writer first read that "Kai
ser Bill" of Germany then
boasted having a fleet ot seven
airplanes as part of war equip
ment. Around that lime the late
W alter P. Chrysler of Goodland,
Kans., then a master mechanic
for the Roik Island railroad
company, was experimenting
with a helicopter that never
was perfected to fly more than
to rise above the ground a few
feet with its own power. He
soon gave up the plan, to apply j
to automobile designing and ,
manufacturing in Detroit. i
Bert Kissinger, j
322 S. Riverside, ave., i
Medford. !
Los Angeles Man To Be
Chief of North Bend
NORTH BEND. Ore. (UPI) -A
3roar-old detective in the
Los Angeles county sheriff's dc- i
partment will become police j
i chief here Nov. 1.
Sebastiano Zarbano
Nov. 1.
of El
Monte, Calif., was chosen for
the post from 61 applicants to
replace Les Liebman, who re
signed July 23. i
on controversial nuciear ana
nationalization issues. Strong
elements within the party would
like to declare Britain neutral
and to abolish altogether
Britain's nuclear weapons.
These same elements would
push nationalization of industry
much further than the present
leadership wishes to go.
British Elections
Political prognosticators in
Britain now do not expect Brit
ish elections until next June.
They must be held no later than
October and June is about the
latest date to allow for cam
paigning and such intangibles
as a dip in employment or the
national economy both of
which would work against
i. Karris
loves, the same fears, the
same rights, the same respon
sibilities. And the man who
denies this in the name of "in
dividualism" becomes a de
humanized creature.
Different for each of us for
each is a distinct unique per
sonality, with his own way of
looking at life, his own in
dependence and autonomy, his
own freedom to make decis
ions, his own end in himself.
And the man who denies this
in the name of "society"
cruelly sacrifices personal val
ues for abstract social ones
that can never be realized by
collective action.
Humanity is perpetually in the
position of a charioteer with two
horses wanting to go in opposite
directions at the same time. If
we give in to one or to the other,
we cannot avoid crashing over
the precipice. Like every good
horseman, we must give each
steed just the right amount of
freedom and the right amount
of control. To determine these
degrees, and the proportions be
tween them, is the continuing
human task.
It cannot be done if we allow
either conflicting idea to run
away with us, out of fear, or
greed, or simple ignorance. The
skillful combination of opposites
is almost tne whole art of living
In the Day's News
By FRANK
The winds of change are blow
ing throughout the world as
this dispatch from London indi
cates. A GOVERNMENT proposal to
raise pounds, shillings and
pence and bring in DECIMAL
currency, which most of the
commercially civilized nations
of the world now use, has set off
widespread debate in Britain.
A government committee has
recommended that the change
be made by 1967. According to
the plan submitted by the com
mittee, the British pound ster
ling, now worth $2.80, would be
divided into 100 cents instead of
the present 240 pennies. One
English cent, under the new
plan, would be worth two Amer
ican cents.
Behind the proposed new
scheme lies the insistence of
British industrialists and bank
ers that the historic but bungle
some British currency is costing
the country much precious time
and therefore is costing much
money which Britain needs.
BUNGLESOME currency,
ask?
How come?
WHY is it bunglesome?
you
ET'S put it this way:
" Suppose you go into a store
in London and purchase mer
chandise priced at say one
pound, two shillings and six
pence. Suppose the smallest
money you have in your wallet
when you go to pay the bill is
a five-pound note.
You hand over the five quid
and, naturally enough, you want
to know how much is coming to
you in the way of change.
IOY ! ! !
You're facing a problem
Ihe magnitude of which you
won't comprehend until you
tackle the job of subtracting
one pound, two shillings and six
pense from the five pounds you
have just handed over to the
sales person.
IN YOUR mind, the problem
will Innlf enmnthint, Itka Ihic-
,'
1 2 6
The L S P at Ihe top means
pounds, shillings and pence.
The S 0 0 means five
pounds, no shillings, no pence
(pence means pennies.)
The 1 2 6 mean the one
pound, two shillings and six
pence your purchase comes to.
Your job is to subtract the one
pound, two and six from the
five pounds you have Just
handed over, so that yon will
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan's Conservatives. By June
the economy could be expected
to pick up again after any
winter recession,
Love Match
After the recent meeting be
tween Soviet Premier Khrush
chev and Yugoslav President
Tito, West German diplomatic
observers expect increasing con
tacts between Yugoslavia and
Warsaw Pact nations. They
think a first step may be a
visit of a Yugoslav military mis
sion to Moscow. Poland already
has invited Tito to visit War
saw. Best bet for the next visit
seems to be Hungary.
Ecumenical
Despite steps taken by Pope
Paul to liberalize the Roman
Curia, governing central body
of the Roman Catholic Church,
sources close to the Vatican say
conservatives within the church
cannot be written off. The con
servatives still make up more
than one third of the church
Just Plain Jack
In the Wilderness
By Arthur Hoppe
Good morning, friends in tele
visionland. It's time for another
visit with Just Plain Jack, the
warm story of a never - say-die
young man who constantly plans
to win through another day.
Like on Nov. 3, 1964.
As we join Just Plain Jack, he
and the Beautiful Society Girl
he married are in the bedroom
together, packing their suit
cases. Jack: Oh, it's good to do
things together. And there's
nothing like the adventure of
traveling. It saves many a mar
riage. By the way, Dear, where
are you going?
Society Girl: Greece. Ah, the
wine dark sea. Ah, the . . .
Jack: Good. And don't forget
to say how much our nation
owes our wonder f u 1 Gracco
American voters. As for me,
I'm off to the wilderness. Ah,
JENKINS
know whether or not your
change is correct.
'V'OW comes the grief.
Obviously, you can't sub
tract 6 from 0. So you have to
borrow. All there is to borrow
is a shilling, and a shilling is
worth 12 pence. So you work that
out, and hope for the best.
That brings you to the shill
ings and you can't borrow
two shillings from 0 shillings
and besides you've borrowed one
shilling already. So you have
to borrow a pound to get enough
shillings to subtract two shillings
from. And that is complicated
by the fact that there are 20
shillings in a pound.
AT THIS point, your mind
reels at the magnitude of
the mathematical problem you
nave tackled, so you accept
graieiuny wnatever tne cashier
hands you and walk out of the
store in a daze, muttering to
yourself and biting your finger
nails.
If you're wise, you won't
EVER try to unsnarl the tangle.
You'll just rely on the tradition
al honesty of British business
people and take whatever you
get.
OO-
" You see
It isn't much to be wondered
at that our British cousins are
finally getting around to chang
ing their fantastic currency sys
tem over into simple decimals.
The wonder is that they didn't
do it CENTURIES ago.
"f don't know he might be Ihe guy we hired to WTile
tunny qjiniper stickers!" ,
Seen
hierarchy and are in a position
to block approval on specific
subjects as they come up for a
vote. Thus they are in a strong
position to tone down what they
don't like in the way of liber
alization and force compro
mises. Pope Paul is moving to
decentralize the authority of the
curia, which now is made up
mostly of Italians, and delegate
greater authority to bishops in
their own territories.
Silent Partner
Japanese Premier Hayato
Ikeda dismayed many Japanese
officials when he offered to
mediate the dispute over
Malaysia and as a result has
been playing it down ever since.
Both the Philippines and Indo
nesia have refused to recognize
the new federation, and Indo
nesia has said it actively will
train guerrilla fighters opposed
to it. Since World War II, Japan
has tried to steer clear of Asian
disputes and Ikeda's offer
seemed lo violate a traditional
role.
wilderness? Nothing cleanses
the soul like communing with
nature. The sky, the stars, the
pines . . . Besides, Pierre says
it'll be good for my image. You
know, like Teddy Roosevelt.
(Portly Pierre, the faithful
family retainer, rushes in wav.
ing a sheet of paper.)
Pierre: We got your itinerary
worked out, Chief. It's great.
It's dramatic. First stop is the
giant redwoods of California,
even now threatened by the log
gers. You stand erect. You
throw out your arms. You cry,
"Woodsman, spare this tree!"
You are surrounded by thos
sands. Jack (happily rubbing his
hands): Of voters?
Pierre: Of trees.
Jack: Oh.
Pierre: Then on lo the Point
Reyes coast, home of the clam
and seagull. You stand on the
desolate strand, defying the real
estate interests, protector of the
poor thousands around you who
cry out for help.
Jack .(wryly): Poor clams?
Pierre: And seagulls. Then
you trek across the vast empty
deserts of Nevada. On to the
pinnacles of the Rockies where
none has trod before. You lose
yourself in the lonely depths of
the Grand Canyon. You . . .
Jack: Don't I get to dedicate
a dam? You usually get a good
turnout when you give the peo
ple a dam.
Pierre: Oh, no, Chief. This is
a conservation trip. We worked
it out so you won't see a soul for
days. Ah, wilderness! Nothing
but wilderness. You'll preserve
all this grandeur. Think how
your memGi-y will be revered
by generations yet unborn.
Jack: Right. And think how
many of them will vote next
November. Maybe we better
change that itinerary a bit.
Now, let's see. We'll make
speeches in Salt Lake City,
Laramie, Seattle - Tacoma and
Great Falls, Montana. We've
got trouble in Montana. Toss in
Las Vegas. Nevada's touch and
go. And throw in a dam in Cali
fornia. That's a real swing
State. And . . .
Pierre: But, Chief, what about
the wilderness?
Jack (hand over heart): No
one, Pierre, loves the wilderness
more than I. Even though I've
never seen it. And I will prove
this to one and all. No matter
how many big cities I must go
to.
Will Jack Save the Wilder
ness? Will Jack Give a Dam?
(cq) Tune in to our next epi
sode, folks. And meantime, as
you go down the byways of life,
remember: To preserve the age
old glories of nature all you
need is just plain jack, (cq)
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