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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of Tht
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
nd 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27, 11153 (Tuesday)
Dr. Frank Munk, head of the
political science department at
Heed college, is scheduled to
speak here tonight on U.S. for
eign policy.
The United Medford Crusade
has now received over half of
its goal of $101,000 established
to support 25 participating agen
cies. 20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27, 11113 Wednesday)
Sgt. Joe Louis, world heavy
weight boxing champion, tenta
tively scheduled to appear in
boxing exhibition at Camp
White.
Lt. John R. (Jack) Pruitt,
Medford, stationed in England
with P-38 Lightning fighter
group.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27, 1933 (Friday)
Mining in Applcgate region
revived as price of gold in
creases. Medford area state police de
tachment opens drive to check
the number of fatal accidents
involving pedestrians on Pacific
highway.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27, 1923 (Saturday)
Medford city police march
celebrants off to jail as pre
Hallowecn party on East Main
St. starts to get rough.
Stephen T. Mather, director
of National parks, scheduled to
be guest of honor at Medford
Chamber of Commerce forum
luncheon.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 27. 1913 (.Monday)
Two indictments returned by
grand jury, which includes Hen
ry L. Gregory, Central Point,
foreman; Martin Perry, Ash
land; Raymond Phillips Run
corn; Fred Luy Wcllcn; Chris
Keegan, Jacksonville; R. U.
Wilson, Griffin Creek; and Ross
Kline, Medford.
From Local and Personal
column: "George W. Dunn of
Ashland is in Jacksonville to
day attending to court business
and visiting friends."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct it superior;
avan or eight It excellent; five or
lii it food.
1. Where is Wrigley Field?
2. When angry, a porcupine
has the ability to throw his
quills; true or false?
3. Ocean Dassoncers arc called
Shellbacks when they have
crossed mo equator; wnai are
thev called before they have
crossed It?
4. Against whom did Charles
Evans Hughes run for the
Presidency in 1016?
5. After his defeat at Waterloo,
to what island was Napoleon
Bonaparte exiled?
6. Osteology is the science
which treats of what?
7. According to the Patent Of
fice which is correct: Trade
mark, trade-murk or trade
mark?
8. Does sound travel faster at
(reeling temperatures or at
room temperature?
9. Is a stereoscope something
through which to hear, see, or
tSpcBrk?
10. We no longer consider the
Pearl of the Antilles to be much
of a pearl; wnv?
Answers: 1. Chicago, III. 2.
File. 3. I'ollywogi. K. Woodrow
WIlMin. S. St. Helens, fl. Bonn.
1. Trilemark. . Room temper
alurc. . Sec. 10. It Is Cuba.
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1963
Birchers and Believability
Robert Welch, the founder and still the nom
inal leader of the John Birch Society, is up to
his old tricks again.
The United Press Internationa! reports that
he was interviewed on a television show Thurs
day, and it added:
"Welch reiterated charges that former President Dwight
D. Eisenhower is a traitor and that the late John Foster
Dulles was a Communist."
This sort of thing, which tended to attract the
lunatic fringe in the early semi-secret days of the
society, is now rather an embarrassment to some
of the later members, who apparently are striving
for respectability.
THE NEW YORK Times Western Edition re
cently carried a story under a headline
which said, "Birch Leaders Curb Welch; Name
Him Elder Statesman."
In part, the story said:
"SAN MARINO, Calif., Oct. 12. The lesser leaders of
the John Birch Society have at last discovered a way to
curb the contentious utterances of their founder.
"Robert H..W. Welch Jr. has been promoted, at the age
of 63, to a position as the society's elder statesman, with
all of the veneration and uncertain authority that that term
implies.
"At a recent testimonial dinner in Los Angeles, Mr. Welch
was lavishly honored by 1,600 members and guests. The
principal speaker, however, was a nonmcmbcr, Ezra Taft
Benson, whose message was strongly conservative with few
traces of Mr. Welch's preoccupation with conspiracy in high
places. . . .
"Although most critics of the Birch Society have aimed
their fire at Mr. Welch, his continuation in some capacity
was never seriously in doubt.
"Only one council member, it is reported, still believes
that Mr. Welch can serve his organization best by detach
ing himself from it.
"The council, however, has been expanding its role steadily
at the expense of his one-man rule. The council members
now issue their own statements of policy on current issues. . . .
"Birch leaders are also trying to lower the emotion of
their members, who are being exhorted to behave with good
will, patience and tact toward disbelievers.
"Overly belligerent tactics such as were recently em
ployed at a civil rights meeting in Los Angeles County, are
to be avoided. Three Birch members (were charged with)
disrupting that forum with shouting and insults." (They
later were convicted. Ed.)
IF, INDEED, Birch Society members do behave
un'tVi n'ririr1 mm 11 nuh'nnno inrl t'.iff" if will
be a net gain, for a rational discussion of the
great issues of the day
an environment ot heckling and cat-calling.
As a matter of fact,
Birchers' charges, and the
statements which arc palpably false, has de
stroyed the Society's claim to credibility among
run-of-the-mill citizens.
Welch can continue
Eisenhower being a traitor, and who will believe
him? Respectability and
vive. that sort or rot.
Can they, Senator Goldvvater (who recently
made overtures of peace to President hisen
howcr) 7 E. A.
Veterans Day Critics
Some veterans and
us figure out why are
session of the Legislature
on Nov. 11, Veterans Day.
Nov. 11 originally
day on which fighting ended in World War I.
As such it was a very special clay to the dough
boys who were "over there."
It was a time of reunions and celebrations
and parades. But then World War II and Korea
came along, and Armistice Day the day cele
brated to mark the end of the war to end wars
lost some of its charm. Later, in a sort of un
easy compromise between sentiment and practi
cality, the day was renamed Veterans Day, and
it is observed to honor all who have served in the
nation's armed forces, in all wars.
m
AS A HOLIDAY, it never has fully "caught
on," in the sense that Labor Day or Inde
pendence Day has. Many veterans, of course,
still have a sentimental feeling about it, and as
is entirely appropriate, celebrate it.
But, while a legal holiday, most businesses
continue and the world goes on much as usual.
Why shouldn't the Legislature convene on
that clay? The members, if one wishes to look
at it that way, are "veterans" of many a battle.
And, this year of troubled finances, it would be
a good idea for them to declare an "armistice"
and get on with the job.
nOW HATFIELD, who called the session, is
a Navy veteran. Many members are too.
Yet they have been attacked in shrill tones
by one veterans group in Portland for "desecrat
ing" the holiday.
They were answered sharply by State Sen.
Ted Hallock, who in turn was sharply criticized
by the attackers.
Ted was the wrong one to criticize. 1 Io is one
of the most decorated fliers to come out of the
Army Air Force during World War 11 a
genuine war hero, the kind Veterans Day honors.
And if he says it's ok to convene the Legis
lature on Veterans Day, it's ok w ith us. E..
Its An Hour Earlier
Good Morning. What time is it?
It is Pacific Standard Time, and that means
it is an hour earlier as you read this than it was
at the same time, yesterday.
If you forgot to adjust your clucks and
watches last night, do it now. Set them back
an hour. That is, if they say 10, turn them back
to !). ,
Did you get that extra hour of sleep? E. A.
cannot be conducted in
the very violence of the
tiresome repetition of
to rant about General
believability can t sur
we can't for the life of
outraged that the special
next month will open
was Armistice Day, the
MEDFORD
e" ' " ' ev i , ..!".v. . -
GREAT IDEAS...
VIEWS ON FAMILY DIFFER
Dear Dr. Adler: The family
has been considered through
out the ages as one of the most
important organizations of
mankind. However, there has
been much disagreement with
regard Io (he role that it
should play in society. Plato,
for example, suggested a sys
tem of marriage for the guard
ian class which was indeed
unique. What did oilier great
thinkers have In say about the
rule and function of (lie fam
ily. Dr. Herd 11. Bradford
1211 Last Aspen Ave.
I'rovn, Ulah
Dear Dr. Bradford: Most
thinkers in our tradition have
viewed the family as an institu
tion which satisfies universal
human needs. Among these
needs are the needs for sexual
union and procreation, and for
the care and rearing of off
spring. The family also fulfills
the need for the instruction of
the young in the ways of the
society into which they are born.
Aristotle recognized both the
instinctive and ethical aspects of
the family 25 centuries ago. He
defined the family as a "Union
of those who cannot exist with
out each other; namely of male
and female, that the race may
continue," arising from "natural
desire." But then he added sig
nificantly that the family, like
the state, is a peculiarly human
"association of living beings,"
which has the "sense of good
and evil, of just and unjust."
The way in which these uni
versal human needs has been
met and the consequent form
the family has taken has var
ied considerably in different
times and places. The early
bonks of the Bible show that a
polygamous type of family ex
isted among the ancient Jew
ish patriarchs. Also the large
"consanguinal" type of family
consisting of an elderly couple,
their children, children's spous
es, grandchildren, etc. seems
to have been far more preva
lent in the ancient world than
the present "conjugal" typo
consisting of a couple and their
children.
Most Western thinkers, from
Aristotle to Freud, have agreed
that the family plays a neces
sary and beneficial role in weld
ing individuals into the struc
ture and values of the commun-
! ity as a whole. Plato, however,
! stands out as a uniquely radical
dissident, who advocated the
I abolition of the family in order
I Io safeguard the common good.
He proposed that the guardian
j class in his ideal state not only
have goods in common, but also,
wives, husbands and children.
I'l - 1,1 1... .... -..
uitll' wuimi lit" no arHti nil-
conjugal nouscnoKis, in nam s
....I M ;.. ...... I.I I
ciim im. iMrtiiittia "until i-i
strictly regulated Dialings be- It is becoming a nice question
tween couples selected for their I w h e t h e r President Kennedy
genelic qualities,! and would last would not be better off political
only for Hie few days of a mar- ly if he had a Republican instead
riage festival. Children would ,",f a Democratic - controlled
be taken from their mothers al Congress to contend with. It is
bu lh and brought up in public ! conceivable al least that the rec-
! nurseries and dormitories. i
Plalo believed that, in this
j way, family affection would be 1
j spread out to the whole guard- i
ian class and social unity would
I be assured. Possessive and self
j ish attitudes the sense of i
I "ours" and "not ours" would
be abolished, and the guardians
would become one big family, in
which the children would be
I everyone's children, and every-
one would lie knit by ties ot Kin
ship. Indeed, he said that "this '
communion of women and child- j
iron and property, in which the
private and indiutlu.il is allo-
i gether banished from life," is
j the basic principle upon which
the whole stale aUotild Ik
formed.
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.
From the Great Books
By Mortimer J. Adfcr
1063, Publishers Newspaper Syndicate)
Aristotle opposed Plato's plan
as leading to the destruction,
rather than the promotion, of
the common good.- The political
community, said Aristotle, is by
nature pluralistic, consisting of
families and individuals which
differ from one another. Too
much unity would destroy the
state. As for family affection
being spread out over the whole
community, in which wives and
children were had in common,
love would be watered down
rather than multiplied.
Social and political thinkers of
various shades of opinion have
tended to side with Aristotle in
this argument. The Soviet
Union, after some experiments
in the early revolutionary days,
has recognized the role of the
stable conjugal family as a
building block of the greater so
ciety. Plato's views have been
applied in part, however, to fam
ily life in the Israeli communal
settlements, where children are
brought up in common nurseries
and dormitories, apart from the
conjugal couple.
You can win a 51-volume
set of the Great Books of the
Western World by writing a
letter, not to exceed 150 words,
incorporating a question of
general interest for Dr. Adler
Io consider for inclusion in this
column. Each week he will
select as first prize winners
the writers of the three best
letters, lie will use ONE of
these letters as a basis for a
future column and wilt ans
wer it in terms of the intel
lectual heritage of the Great
Books 113 works by 71 auth
ors, spanning 110 centuries of
thought. Address Hie letters to
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, in care
of this newspaper.
Editorial
TRAVEL LIGHT
If voters could select the
places for state economizing
there is little doubt they would
slart with the Legislature.
They would cut back salaries
and expense accounts, though
not as drastically as some
might think. They would reduce
the spending for secretarial and
clerical help and might bar
A Cry for
By ERIC
SEVAREID
(llislrlhiitrd lusl
II v Thr IUII
svnduair. inc.)
(Ml Itlchts
lit sf rvrrt)
i
ord on domestic legislation
would not be much worse than
it is, and Mr. Kcnnedv would
have the residual gain of a sim-l royal sojourners m the kingdom ! is the far wider spread of cap
pie. poar-shnicd issue on which of oil arc. apparently, to go on j ital ownership, a true "people's
to fitht the battle of l;w.
One of the more charming
j memories among political re-
iwrlcrs is the recollection of
j Harry Truman in liMR sitting
outside the Philadelphia auditor-
ium over the railroad tracks,
serenely sipping bourbon and
branch water as he was about
Io enter, front and center, to de-
nounce the "do nothing'' Fight -
ielh Congress and recall it on
Missouii's Day of the Turnip, or
Zucchini, or whatever Ve noble
vegetable was.
OREGON
A LAST IGI.Y FOOTNOTE
WASHINGTON - One last,
rather ugly footnote is required
by this reporter's just-completed
Asian journey. In brief, if the
signs in the Far East mean any
thing at all, President Kennedy's
troubles with President Charles
de Gaulle have only just begun.
At the moment, former
French Prime Minister Edgar
Faurc is paying a kind of good
will visit to Communist China,
reportedly with official encour
agement from the dc Gaulle
government. More important
still, the head of one of the big
French oil and general trading
companies, Guillaume Georges
Picot, left Peking only a couple
of weeks ago, after a long stay
as the leader of a trade mission
"representing the French Manu
facturers' Association.
In addition, during his recent
visit to Washington, French For
eign Minister Maurice Couve de
Murville let drop the remark to
Secretary of State Dean G. Rusk
that it was now "illogical" not
to recognize Communist China.
From these portents, certain
tentative predictions can be
made.
FIRST, Gen. de Gaulle will
probably recognize the Pe
king regime if suitable condi
tions can be negotiated, lnis
means, above all, that the
French must not be put in the
same humiliating category as
the British, who fell over them
selves in their haste to recog
nize Mae Tse-tung's govern
ment, but are still not permitted
to have a representative in
Peking above the rank of charge
d'affaires. De Gaulle will only
be satisfied with sending an am
bassador of full rank, and re
ceiving one in return.
Second, this mutual recogni
tion, if it is arranged, will prob
ably be accompanied by the ex
tension of substantial French
credit to the Chinese Commu
nists. The choice of Georges
Picot to head the trade mission
implies the hope of petroleum
exports to China, to replace the
oil fuel the Chinese still precar
iously import from the Soviet
Union, lt the credit is extended,
the terms are likely to be de
signed to set a pattern, which
mav be followed by the Japan
ese and others who are tempted
to do business with the Chinese
Comunists.
The French are quite astute
enough, of course, to see that
they are highly unlikely to make
large profits from trade with
Peking. There is also notning
that makes recognition of Com
munist China more "logical" to
day than it was in the past. As
always in the past, France and
her African allies have just,
once again, cast their votes
against Communist China's ad
mission to the United Nations.
But that, apparently, is likely to
change next year.
...
IV'HAT, then, are the motives
" of this significant and po
tential damaging new maneu
ver, to which the French govern
ment is known to be giving ac
tive consideration? The answer
appears to be that "motive" is
Comment
wives of members from serv'
ing as secretaries to their hus
bands. In the upcoming special
session the Senate is going to
"travel light" as far as hired
help is concerned.
The experience will be help
ful and may serve as a prece
dent. Oregon Statesman, Salem
Justice in Taxation Laws
Still, maybe this just isn't in j The real point, the point from : man depletion." This was intro
the Kennedy nature. What is I which anv revamping of our I duccd in ConEi ess bv former
very mucn in nis nature is to
uumi ui uv.ii iiiuKidiiis iii
fcvi cuiiii-uiiiiK on me
books. He doesn't exactly march
up the hill of a new frontier and
lncn marcn down again, like the
liwidiu liuac oi i orK. tie
marches up, then slows and be- j tion: what they will not accept j age of expertise,
gins zig-zagging. an accepted is the feeling, now deep in our But I have never been able to
procedure for crossing mountain 1 society as the rich get richer I see why the idea is foolish. Un
passcs but of unproved validity j far faster than the poor get less der the Zelenko bill a citizen
in passing legislation. j poor, that they arc not being would get a one per cent rcduc-
The zig and the zag procedure treated with justice. There is ' tion of his earned income for tax
has now begun with the lax cut ; something profoundly wrong. : purposes at the age of forty
legislation, the administration j socially if not fiscally, in a sys- five: at the ace of forty-six, it
dropping its insistence on a tern by which owners of capital ' would be two per cent, and so on
large cut in the favored treat-! have a real chance for economic ' and up as he grows older and
ment given oil. gas and mineral
producers via the 27j per cent
allowance ior depiction, some
being paid, not just lor the pro -
! duct thev sell, like economic
commoners, but also for the
product they haven't yet sold,
This has alwavs been a "heads
I win tails you lose" proposi -
tion in the law. It has always
roused the wrath of other than the justice of our taxing system,
southwestern Congressmen, and ' They would require strong polit -
it always escapes the annual as- j ical leadership: the niggling of
sault upon it. ! (ax experts will never in the
, Proponents of the privilege world produce them. .
argue that rcduc'ji,': it or even I
. ahotjhing it would i Wins no vast This reporter proposed ajnc
i sum back In Wa fneisajjir .it nut approach seven 'f.irs ago
' surely this W'no hoyr lav, points) income lax reduction for "hu-
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
!c) tfew York Herald Tribune Syndicate
I
the wrong word. I
This is rather a reaction an
instinctive rather than a moti
vated reaction to Nikita S.
Khrushchev's snubs of Gen. de
Gaulle, to the nuclear test-ban
treaty, to the slight warm-up of
Soviet-American relations, and
to other linked phenomena. In
other words, if Moscow insists
on treating President Kennedy
as the one Western leader with
whom it is worth doing business,
the grandeur of France demands
a comparable relationship with
the other Communist giant.
These are shocking things to
say. But shocking things have
happened already, and the fact
that they have happened in
creases the probability that a
French policy-change toward
Peking is in the wind. From Sai
gon, this reporter sent the news
of an elaborate, long-continuing
French intrigue to defeat Amer
ican policy in Viet Nam, by pro
moling conversations between
the North and South Vietnamese
"behind the backs of the Amer
icans." rpilE phrase is quoted from
President Ngo Dinh Diem's
brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, who is
both the primary target and the
intended mainspring of the
French intrigue. South Vict Nam
would have been sold out to the
Communists to the North if Ngo
Dinh Nhu had succumbed to
the quite elaborate French-organized
petitions (which includ
ed careful softening-up by the
French ambassador to Saigon,
the well-timed Olympian come-on
statement by President de
Gaulle, and a private message
from the North Vietnamese Pre
mier, Pham Van Dong). The op
tion, it must be added, is always
open to Nhu.
On extremely specious
grounds, the existence of this in
trigue' was officially denied to
the U. S. Ambassador in Paris,
Charles E. Bohlen. The denial
merely increases the unpleasant
ness of the facts, which cannot
be doubted. The French govern
ment has, of course, previously
indicated lack of sympathy with
U.S. policy in Vict Nam.
But there is the longest pos
sible step betwen an honest in
dication of lack of sympathy and
embarking on a secret intrigue
to defeat the policy of a pre
sumed ally with no notice given
to the ally, of course. From
these facts, future French inten
tions must be judged.
"Joe, we understand you're afraid to serve Negroes because
you think we'll mind. As customers and good Americans,
we're here (o tell vou we don't mind!"
crazy-quill tax structure must
iivgin, is a puna ui pimcipie.
) ju.Mice.
j The generality of American
citizens have proved, for years
! and years, that they win accept
i an exiremciv men icvei oi laxa-
security but earners of wages,
! salaries and fees do not.
pernaps tne uiiunaie solution
! capitalism." Large books exist
on the
inw r.-a u "mm una
. could be done w ith the aid of
radically new legislation. In the
meantime there are broadax
; strokes that could be made toj
' restore some sense of faith in
Communications
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for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of traj
paper. In fact the contrary it often tht cast.
Liberty Amendment ment Committee of Oregon, 310
To the Editor: We the peo
ple, and "patriots" of Oregon,
would LOVE to support our
state in a style even more lav
ish than it - has become ac
customed. This can be done in a way
that would warm the saddest
legislative legislator's heart in
the face of the recent election
rebuff . . . and this, by the
same action would leave from
$50 to $100 per week MORE
in our respective taxpayer's
pockets.
At this writing, buried in the
Senate is the Liberty Amend
ment . . . "tabled during the
last legislative assembly.
IMAGINE! Our senators and
representatives tabled the very
Amendment that would provide
ways to put their hands on con
siderably more revenue annual
ly than asked for.
For those in the dark on
the subject, the Liberty Amend
ment is a resolution to take
our. federal government out of
private business, and repeal
the federal income tax. Strange
enough this does not "rob" the
federal government, but rather
takes them out of the "red",
and hands them back MORE
income than ever before . . .
but this NOT at the cost of the
American taxpayer. He would
then have a great deal more
than enough to support his own
state ... as said before:
Lavishly."
This is a Republic of 50 states,
with sovereignity vested in, the
states by our federal constitu
tion. The United States is NOT
a democracy with all power
vested in a bureaucratic cen
tral government.
The Constitution provides that
three-quarter of the states need
to pass this resolution to make
it become law in three years.
Six states have already passed
the Liberty Amendment: Wyo
ming: Texas: Nevada; Louisi
ana; South Carolina and Geor
gia. Therefore, it behooves our
elected representatives to put
this resolution back on the agen
da, and pass it this coming
special session. Then, go fur
ther, and put pressure on the
remaining 31 states required to
follow suit.
Oregon taxpayers not familiar
with the Liberty Amendment,
should write Liberty Amend-
Representative Herbert Zelenko
oi .' i orK as n. u. b'ju. a
i unci ncanng was neio in corn-
, mittec, no real discussion de-
j velopcd and the bill died even
; before aborning. No large, sim -
nie oea seems crediD e in this
his muscles, skills, talents and
supply of ideas are depleted. His
chief capital asset-his strength
of mind and body-is giving out.
at that age, at least as fast as
an oil deposit or a tractor, on
; which a larmcr can lane a large
I annual deduction for "deprecia
tion
Our tax structure is based on
the assumption that the chief
driving force in the economy is
1 (he investment of money capital,
! so it receives special protection.
The real driving force is the ex-
pendilure of capital it the (urn
of sweat. brU'.ns and tdleeiti
' but . it i'M n tri))cit(. R
15 i0 'n flf "(tuoati4lttn
and diMW$wJ, '
SW Stark St., Portland 4. and
become fully informed. Then,
send tons of this literature along
with the information to citizens
of other states and their legis
lators, informing them as to
how Orcgonians rebuked ex
cessive taxation. (It is doubt
ful as to whether the other
states were even informed in
view of "controlled communi
cation medias.")
J. R. McGee,
633 Carrington,
Medford
Keep Them Busy
To the Editor: Many wonder
why the young adults of Med
ford get into so much trouble.
They really don't intend to get
in trouble. The young people
just don't have anything to keep
them busy. They have lots of
"steam" to burn up. It is up to
the leaders of our community
to see that they burn it up in
tne ngnt way.
Parents of these young people
complain like crazy. But you
sure don t see many of tht
complaining ones doing anything
about the problem, outside of
telling them they had better not
get in trouble or they will be
punished. The punishment
doesn't do much good if them
isn't anything for them to do.
They have to find something
to do.
They could go to the show.
bowling, or skating. But they
don't always have the money.
Besides the same thing every
week end isn't very much fun.
uur young people don t have any
variety of activity available. I
believe there is something our
community can do to keep thesa
young adults busy, that won't
break anyone s pocketbook.
Carol Dicksen
51 North Oakdale Ave.
Medford.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Hurricanes and we've read
a lot about them lately are
a manifestation of the weather.
Two hurricane questions:
1. What causes 'em?
2. How come the U.S. Weather
bureau some years ago to name
'cm all for women?
ACCORDING to the weather
"sharps, a hurricane is a
windstorm of such fury that it
can tear ships from their an
chors, blow large buildings to
pieces and raise Ned generally.
A hurricane occurs when a
mass of warm air breaks through
a mass of colder air above and
rushes up through the hole thus
formed with frightful force. The
winds are caused by more air
rushing in to get up through
the hole.
Hurricanes break up and call
it quits when they move over
colder water which cools off tha
warmer air that is rushing in
to get up through the hole.
rpHAT'S about the long and the
short of it.
It explains why hurricanes
fizzle out when they leave the
warmer waters of the south and
get over the colder waters to the
north.
The weather professionals add
that a hurricane is strongest
when it moves over water be
cause it doesn't run into ob
jects that could break its force.
A hurricane often dies down a
short time after it reaches land
because mountains and hills
slow it down.
IHAT takes care of Question
No. 1.
Now for Question No. 2 how
did our Weather Bureau people
come to name these destructive
manifestations of nature for
WOMEN?
That remains a mystery.
I suppose cvnics will claim
that NOBODY knows why
i oureaucrais do wnat they do.
HERE'S a thought:
Mnvhn vvhnn tho
weather
i dozen
1 bureau got together
years or so ago and decided
that hurricanes ought to be
named they had all been reading
Kipling and Sir Walter Scott.
Kipling, you know, says in his
Female of the Species: "Tha
female of the species is more
deadly than the male."
That takes care of the dcadli
ness of the hurricane.
! IH'T
" Th
The hurriranp it aUn ,,n
, predictable. It may do one thing
! or it may do another. So, per-
haps, the bureaucrats turned to
Sir Walt- Smti uh.
nis Marmion:
Oh woman! In our hours of
ease,
"Uncertain, coy and hard to
please,
"And variable as the shade
"By the light quivering aspen
made."
So, it may have appeared to
eiir weather bureaucrats that
flwiiaa; hurricanes for women
vtetia) t,Ye care of tha tnr
chctabia iri of tlwr oa'aj
Anvav iirxiria um.
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