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Medford and Jackson County
History from tn files of Th
Mall Tribune; 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
FLIGHT 0 TIME Stdg . . .
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 18, 11)53 (Friday)
Grcenlease, kidnap-killers, die
in Missouri gas chamber 81 days
after incident.
Jackson County jail escapee
is caught in San Diego, Calif.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 18, 1043 (Saturday)
Jackson County tax collec
tions for 1043-44 total $912,293.4R,
or 75.1 per cent listed on the
current tax rolls.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Every
body bore up well under the
fog. It was the only riisagree-
ablcness in a long lime not
caused by bureaucratic tinker
ing. Furthermore, cussing of
the same was not listed as giv
ing aid and comfort to the foe.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 18, 19.13 (Monday)
Appraisal of Medford Irriga
tion District completed and sent
to Washington, D.C.; Gold Hill,
Eagle Point and Rogue River
Districts' appraisal expected to
be completed soon.
County Judge Earl B. Day
calls for a complete reorganiza
tion of the tax program.
10 YEARS AGO
Pre. IS. 1IO (TiicsiIhj)
Free city auto park leased to
Morrirk's Inn, as transients
look advantage of the municipal
hospitality.
Red Bluff, Calif., man claims
he has a cure for blight.
50 YEARS A(iO
Pre. IS, 1913 (Thursday)
"Ragging" continues at the
dances despite protests of police
and preachers.
Railroads show a 10 per cent
gain in earnings the past year.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is suporlar;
seven or eight is esccllent; tlva or
sit is good.
1. Scvcnly per cenl of our
Iron ore comes from which
stale'.'
2 What was Ihe name of the
temporary residence used by
PiTsidenl Truman while the
While House was undergoing
rccoiiMniilion?
3 What dues Hip given name
"Christine" moan?
I. From which of Ihekr lan
guages is Hie name "F.li.abelh"
derived Greek, Hebrew, or
Teutonic?
5. The f, lined movie actor,
who was known as "the man
of a thousand faces," was L
C ?
6 W hat is Ihe principal ingre
dirnt of snuff?
7. To Europeans a gymnasium
Is what?
8. Does the wind blow spirally
In a hurricane, cyclone, or tor
nado? 9. Should crabs he rooked
alive?
in U'mrt n,,.,n L',tihl n,wl
4 A
VSJaisociation
ED TOR AL
1
Pawn are' terms' applying to' parts not arriving, and all the other cosily nui
what game? jsanccs and inconveniences which occur w hen the
.Answer,: I. Minnrsnla. J.l plailOS (lotl't land.
lllair lliillvr. ,1. Ilrlnnging lo
(hrisl. 4. Ilehrrw. 5. I.on
( hanry. A. Tobacco. 7. Pre
paratory nrlimil. 8, All three. 8.
Yes. 111. Chess.
DECEMBER 18, 13
Duncan's Freshman Year
Conpressman Robert
in his office for less than
he has made an impact, both in Washington and
in the Fourth District of Oregon (as well as else
where) far above the run-of-the-mill freshman
Representative.
After several months of discreet (and wise)
silence, during which he felt his way around,
looked, listened and questioned, and satisfied
himself as to the channels of power and author
ity, he has begun to speak out.
And he has made himself heard, despite the
old saw that says junior Congressmen should be
barely seen and heard not at all.
LIE HAS established his lines of communica-
tion, not only in the Capital, but to his home
district. When he accomplishes something, he
lets his constituents know about it as he should.
He was, of course, fortunate in his committee
assignments agriculture and interior, both
vitally important to the Fourth District again
unexpectedly good for a freshman. But he has
made intelligent use of them and, without being
pushy or overtly aggressive, has made himself a
respected member.
We recently chatted
whose business takes them to Washington Ire
quently, and who are intimately acquainted with
the workings of Congress. They agreed that
Duncan is fast becoming one of the most effee
tive members of the Mouse.
IN ADDITION to legislative accomplishments,
Duncan has shown courage. Recently he
voted against a cotton subsidy bill which was
strongly supported by
His opposition was reasoned and sound, but it
still took intestinal iortitude, not only to vote
against the bill in the face of the possible resent
ment or powertul members with great seniority,
but also to speak out vigorously against it.
He not only does his "homework" on legis
lation, but also keeps up the public-service ac
tivities which are so important a part of a Con
gressman's role.
A letter printed on this page recently testified
to the fact that his efforts obtained Social Se
curity payments to which a constituent was en
titled, but which had been held up in red tape.
Her gratitude (and her letters to several editors
telling of it) is worth its weight in gold, politi
cally. But dozens and scores of such chores are
done quietly, with no thought of reward.
A CONGRESSMAN'S job is roughly divided
' into three parts:
1. Being of service to constituents.
2. Bird-dogging legislation of importance to
his own district.
3. Keeping abreast of and familiar with the
vast torrent of legislation which may have no
direct application to his own district, but is of
vital import to the nation as a whole.
On the basis of evidence so far, Bob Duncan
has gone a long way in learning all three parts
of his job in the 11 months he has been work
ing at it. E. A.
Alternate Airport Needed
The past several weeks have furnished us with
ample evidence that what this county needs is an
airport which could serve as an alternate landing
place when the Mod ford airport is fogged in.
The airlines must be out thousands upon thou
sands of dollars in bussing passengers to Klam
ath Falls or elsewhere and back again.
Last Sunday, Medford
My Lines' mornintr north
taken to Klamath. The
enplaned, flew directly
although it was invisible beneath the fog) and
then on north. Two hours were lost.
WHO CAN estimate the amount of business
' which was delayed or cancelled on that
onp tl iv -.lnno-' nrl mnlliiiK-ihw In-ili.i nnmUni
onettayaioni . .nti muni n, this in the mm be
Ol IOggy Clays, sometmies tor weeks oil end, and
Olte can only conclude
Medford airilOll bv foe
I .' S
1 here IS a movement
aiKl improve the Ashland
be Usable hv airliners
s sh , n I'.?, , .1 ,
sunshine lai more than
Wo do not believe it
of the city of Ashland to
Mi, ..U ,,f il,.. i.,,1 ,.- ,.i II ... :i l l
iMuen ol the needed sums would he available
. , , , ,
ll'om the iedetal government on a matching basis.
' " ' " ' 1
N ADDITION. It OCCUI'S
it occurs
g()eilimeiu is Hot
nrre. luodiord lor years has carried the cost ol
the county's major airport, although it serves a
wide area.
Air traffic is today a major source of income
for the entire community, and anything which;
would keep it going would benefit the entire'
community. Perhaps a port district is the answer,
but in any event, neither Ashland nor .Medford1
should boar the entire cost.
Surely, Ashland would benefit. Hut so would j
Medford. So would business. So would each !
individual who has seen mail slowed, appoint-1
. . ! I.I,' II I i 1 . . .
mollis misseii, relatives noiavoii. orders canoe
J his area needs an
oi Handling airline iraine, siiiands ;
trine best available. And the sooner the
. 1 1 i , .
B. Duncan has served
a year now, but already
with a couple of men
leaders in his own party.
passengers on United
and smith ohmcs were
north hound passengers
to Medford (and over it,
that the closure of the 1
W eosliiuv nli'iilv
" ' t null,
under loot lo expand
airiMirt SO that II COU d
The shl;mil field is in "on kuls ""'''' nn B'non b ,
11 , y'i if i "Vhlankols - The inside story of
the Meillord held is. wb.u .., on when ihe sun's
is the Sole resnollSlhilltV '
undertake such a chore. !
to US that tile enimlV
to us that lite coiinlv
W 1 I 11 o tl t responsilulltv
led
auiliar airport capable
, , ,
tut ich
bettor.
IS
BUY CHRISTMAS .
SEALS
'lie's got to go he's beginning
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the contrary is often the eaia.
Mule in a Box Car
To the Editor: When the old
Brush car arrived in Ashland
on the Southern Pacific, we
couldn't get it out of the box
car, so I wrote a letter to the
Brush Company, I asked them
how they got Ihe darn car off
the assembly line and into the
box-car. They answered my let
ter and told me they dragged it
in with a mule. I wrote right
back and told them to come out
to Oregon, take their Brush car
and send me the muic. I told
them I ain't never had no
trouble pullin' a mule in a box
car or gettin' one out, and I
wished I could say the same
thing for your car.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
Who Will Rise Up?
To the Editor: Permit me lo
preface a few thoughts by a
very revealing quote of an ar
ticle read lately, the title o( this
is, "Motion Pictures Purvey
Filth. It is the conviction of
many Christians that the movies
are herding a whole generation
of youth toward hell. It is not
news when genuine Christians
oppose the movies, but it is
news when such men as HendriK
Van Loon and others speak out
pointedly against the immoral
suggestiveness of the screen.
Louis Bauman quotes Mr. Van
Loon as saying, "The moving
picture producers are a group
of money chasers who are turn
ing an entire race of youngsters
into hysterical psychopaths
whose ears and eyes must for
ever be glued to something that
can only be described by a
single word, 'ignoble'."
Mr. Bauman also quotes inci-
ford Buton, who is editor of the
Hollywood Spectator: l n e
screen is a menace to the glow
ing population. It aims its prod
ucts at those whose low tastes
makes them impervious to the
u earitv of pornography, pas
sion masquerading as love; dis
cussions of the double standard,
and other unlovely aspects of
modern civilization. The produc
ers of motion pictures purvey
filth for the sole purpose of
reaping profits. They have delv
ed into Ihe garbage cans of our
social structure and extract
from them as story material
, nvnrvillinp thai slinks."
V'X
we have ever soon, was adver-
fed in early September by one
of the community s drive - in
theaters. Are we wrong to sus-
peel tliat such was purposely
planned to catch our young poo-
pie and make harlots and
whoremongers of them in a
wholosal(1 m:mne,? i;o,rs w01.d
snvs it is a shame even to
sPcak 11,0 lhinR's A'm ,hcm
in s'ivt. bill this glaring tiling
, ,,1-tiscd in Ihe onen in
U- most suggestive language j
possible to employ. Quote: 'lO.-i
K""1' '!'" - lhe moon s come
"p. a" .l'"101' s col
-..s,,.h
funn-os of both sexes nemm
,
al""K mflamatory Ian-;
guage' Who could see it " "l'o-
-''''', ..
. "v . .mi,, i, ,i, , v . ,,,,,,1 , ,, .
You missed Ihe ad" See ilnve-
in ads for Sept. fi, IW:t. in M.T.
If the aih ertiscmcut showed so
much, how much did the show
show'.' Think of putting such rot
before children's eyes, or any
one's (or lhat mailer!
Who will rise up with me
against this duly flagrant wick
edness, this hellish disgrace?
11 11, liulman
Route 4, Box illRA
Medford
Spoken EmI
To the Editor Thanks (or
out' excellent editorials lately,
.il.sii (or the many good com
munications. "Common Sensi
by Mr.
Ellis, and "Time To
Mrs. Duncan were ex-1
Go" bv
cellenl. and many more contain
food for thought. Mrs Ellis Is '
so t ight we must guide chil-,
ilren by Ihe example we lne.
-,,,.4 II,a n..)e .. n !
J,' I""" "" " "S
i" '' She says' "He, Ihe Pu.idrnt.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.
fo identify himself with the role!'
name and address of the writer,
was just a man". I have heard
this over radio and T.V. by
people that should know heller.
I wonder if these people con
sider our flag "just a rag," or
do they teach the children it is
the emblem of our nation, of
which each individual is a part
for good or evil.
A top labor leader on T.V.
equated our President with one
of his truck drivers. I doubt it
many of his truckers would so
equate themselves. They are too
fine a lot of men, they and our
police are the finest men on our
highways, and the latter is not
"just a man." His uniform
makes him different, he repre
sents the people of the state he
serves. The same is true of our
President. He is TOP MAN,
chosen by the nation.
As to "his lime lo go," I must
agree, yet I do not believe in
fatalism. Mrs. Duncan's article
on this was excellent. When we
go, depends on three things
the Lord and His work of good,
Satan and his work of evil, and
most of all our works. To which
side are vt contributing? Our
President was a great soldier
with little fear. This made him
a prime target for Satan and
evil. Like Christ He loved and
gave his life trying to help the
people that killed him. Sure, one
pulled the trigger, but the evil
spoken over radio and T.V. is
like gasoline on fore to sick
minds.
The remedy? Our President
died frying in find it. There
should be some way lo stop the
slanderous, libelous, false accu
sations against our top leaders.
Such incite evil and anarchy,
making them prime targets for
Ihe sick minds. We do not elect
them for that purpose.
F. E. Beverly
112 Geneva St.
Medford
Retirement Center Questions
Tn the Editor: Since I believe
(he attached letter is of in
terest tn a great many people
in this area, I thought you
might want tn use it in Ihe
Communications section of your
newspaper.
L. E. Chantry,
B35 Park St.,
Ashland, Ore.
Federal Housing and Home
finance Agency.
c f
' . ,. ,
. Uoar f"rs: lM'om an IKle
lne Ashland Tidings of Dec.
5' llHi:! ' learned (hat a local
church plans to go ahead with
11 ",",,m l"m" ' " '"
.ty village if they can obtain
financial assistance from the
le101''11 Rovernment.
As an apartment house owner
and hpnvv tav n:ivnr I am
wondering' about a 'number of
things in connection with such
a P"jc-t.
Has an accurate survey been
,:,,i i .),.., i),, n,o .,-
,s rpanv IU,w,.r.' This vear
proximately KM new rental units
nave nccn or are iicing null
... a.m i a ,.,
in .-,.-,!, mi ill. .-i i - unit dm i in, m
huilding is under construction
(nl. r,,Tv ppp0. (if (,,ur units
tthk'!l 1 understand have boon I
n , ,, , e , (i u ii hi u,rn i
rented. !
Since much Ihe same rental
situation exists in Medford and
surrounding areas, 1 would sug
gest that the Jackson County
Property Owners Rental Asso
ciation or some other reliable
group be requested to make an
impartial survey of vacancies
in the whole area.
II would he enlightening to expenditures o(
know w hat rale of interest the I 1 earnestly implore you follow
church will be required to pay I citizens and voters for your own
if the loan is granted. Will it ; good and for the future well
receive moncv at a lower rate being of our state remember
of interest than other apart
ment owners, whose high taxes
help make the loan possible''
It is generally understood that
church property is not taxed.
It would he interesting lo know
what taxes, if any. the church ,
will pay on this renter.
According lo circulars issued
in regard In Ihe proposed Inn-
lit, Cill,n lhfl,A tinc n.,1 t M m
I".' """ , r
to he a great deal of interest
OREGON
Does De Gaulle Mean Business in Common
Market Threat? If So, He May Lose Much
I!!
By
PHIL NEWSOM
L'PI Kmnsn News
Analyst
The qucslion before France's
Common Market partners now
is, does President Charles de
Gaulle mean business or is he
kidding?
On the basis of the record
established by "Le Grand
Charles," it must be assumed
that he does mean business
and that he will carry out a
threat to wreck the six-nation
European Economic Commu
nity unless it reaches agree
ment on a common farm policy
by New Year's eve.
although under certain circumstances
shown by prospective tenants.
If their plans materialize, it
appears there may be as many
vacancies as in some retire
ment renters already built.
I have been informed that in
some areas of Ihe United States,
contrary lo common belief, an
excess of single house and mul
tiple dwelling units have heen
built. Owners are offering such
inducements as free rent and
payment of moving costs to fill
vacancies.
May I repeat, there seems to
be a question of the need of
the Trinity Village project and
also the advisability of a church
going into active business com
petition when there appears to
be sufficient private capital and
enterprise to take care of such
construction, which construction
is perhaps already being over
expanded. I.. E. Chantry,
6.15 Park St.,
Ashland, Ore.
Campaign Donom
To the Editor: I am reason
ably certain your readers par
ticularly those tax-duped, lax-
poor citizens in the state of Ore
gon will be interested in ex
cerpts from a recently published
article from the Greater Oregon
newspaper, published in Albany,
Ore. "Proponents of the Legis
lature's ill-fated revenue pro
gram in the special election last
Oct. 15 spent 10 limes as much
as Ihe opponenls. A report
Thursday (Dec. 12) by Secretary
of Slate Howell Appling shows
proponents spent $47,186 to the
opponents $4,239. The vote was
3'2 to 1 against the measure.
The largest personal contribu
tion to the campaign came Irom
Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, presi
dent of the University of Oregon.
Flemming spent $2,:)8 of his
own money in a letter writing
campaign thai blanketed the
stale.. The Oregon Education As
sociation. Portland, contributed
$24,52:1 of the total of $28,781
spent by Ihe citizens committee
for a YES vole on Measure No.
I. Oregon AFL-CIO put $1,0(10
into this total, and $500 each
came from Georgia - Pacific
Corp. and Ihe Oregon Stale Em
ployees Association. The Save
Our Students committee collect-
ot ami nnnl l.l IIIH Of lllic
amolm( 07R c(ime from nifih.
pr c(ucatjon students contribut-
Trefimd 5 "
ttolll noimauy be leiunaca.
Note: There are many more
businesses and private donors
listed which for lack of space
cannot be enumerated here.
"Expenditure of $:i.ti:U was re-
hv lhp a,mmlUcP for
Kconomv' am) Equitable Taxa-
tion of which the chairman was
j, Francvl Howard. Albanv and
r',....,lliL- n.c,n,,,. ,,Mi.:h.i,-
who sparked Ihe referendum
drive. Howard listed onlv $1.0UI
in contributions, and the secre-
tarv of stale's office said he
; ,.. m. , i .....
ap-lnorl. Contributors lo this com
-
millee included Ihe White Sol-
l emon .eague. uma no, mini,
..., .i. n..,.,. i
dull mr i i-pn it-i , i in iihiiw,
Im.W. Other opposing organia-
lions listing Ihe same amount
fur contributions and rxprnili-
Hi nt nfi nmniiii (i c.'ir i are '
Committee for Economy ami
Equitable Taxation, Lane Coiin
lv, SI16; Klamath I ouiuy lax-
pavers League, $103: and Ihe inings oi me a mine win mr .
Committee for a Moderate and In this country, e re quite cor
Beneficial Tax Program, $129. lam that an American dollar
The Multnomah County Citizens will buy MOKE of the good
Committer for Economy and things of life than a Russian
Equitable Taxation , reported , ruble will buy.
contributions totaling $59 and : Still, the figures are interest
ami keen uppermost in our
niuiils the names of those leg
latins and other ollicials who
tried to cram thai monstrous
and unneccss.irv adililion.il lax
legislation down our Ihioais
last Oct. 15. REMEMBER
there's a primary election com
ing up in fne months.
.lohn .1. Muii'iv
TJj Mountain View Place
Grants Pass. Ore.
trance, West Germany, Italy, ( resentment he himself stirred
Tho MA.hnrlsnrlc Rolrrinm anllact 1-iniiirv uiKnn U nnlnnrl
The Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg now are working
in their modernistic headquar
ters at Brussels, Belgium
At the moment, their chances ' " Oaulle may bo that his i Bvt EFTA now has been re
of success seem remote, with 1 slan(! aRais Britain could vived and if the Common Mar
final resulls having a stroiiR 'oaci l" nls "wn isolation. .),, shoud cipse its mem-
bearing not only upon Ihe fu -
ture of Europe but upon the ap-
proximately $1 billion worth of
agricultural goods sold annual
ly to Common Market nations
by the United States as well.
Failure at Brussels also most
automatically would doom the
chances for success of the so-
j cauecj "Kennedy round" of ne-
gotiations next May at which it
is hoped for across - the - board
tariff cuts of 50 per cent.
This would come under the
"General Agreements for Tariff
and Trade," otherwise known
as GATT.
Crux of the problem at Bins-
sels is the French demand for
immediate agreement on price
regulations for beef, veal, dairy
produce and rice to the bene
fit of French farmers and at a
loss for the German farmers.
Also involved is De Gaulle's
concept of the Common Market
as an inward looking, protec
tionist grouping and the oppos
ing belief held by West German
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard that
Ihe oullook should he global in
Ihe concept also held by the
late President Kennedy.
Ironically for De Gaulle,
some of the resistance he now
is meeting is an oulgrowlh of
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Moscow:
The Soviet parliament re
ceived for formal approval an
unprecedented $212.3 BILLION
peacetime budget for the next
two years that emphasized
bread and butter instead of
guns.
Premier Khrushchev looked
nn approvingly in the Grand
Kremlin Palace as Defense Min
ister Vasily Garbuzov read out
the figures, lopping off $liliB mil
lion from defense spending for
the next year.
At the same time, $27.1 billion
was allocated to the nation's
failing agriculture over the next
two years and the green light
was given to a chemistry indus
try build-up which will supply
the farms with fertilizer and
also satisfy GROWING DE
MANDS FOR MORE CONSUM
ER GOODS.
'PHIS IS the interesting part
-- of the slory:
President Kroosh and his ad
visers appear to be coming to
the conclusion that it just might
be SAFER FOR THEM to spend
less for guns (and atom bombs)
with which to conquer the world
for Communism and more for
butter (and also for STEAKS
and better houses and better
clothing and more automobiles
and the other things that go to
make up the GOOD LIFE that
the people of the Western world
seem to he having in much
greater abundance than the peo
ple of the U.S.S.R.).
That, if true, could be highly
significant.
SOME INTERESTING figures:
The present estimated pop
ulation of the United States is
about 1R8.000.0o0.
The present estimated pop
ulation of Ihe U.S.S.R. is about
220,000,000.
rpHE ANTICIPATED federal
A budget of the U. S. for the
next fiscal year is in the neigh
borhood of $100 billion.
The anticipated budget of the
U.S.S.R. for Ihe nexl year, ac
cording to this morning's dis
patches from Moscow, will be
about $100 billion.
'HICH IS lo say:
'' The per capita federal lax
in Ihe V. S. for the next fiscal
year will be about $530.
The per capita tax in the
I I'.S.S R. for Ihe 'next fiscal year
will be about $4112.
rrilKSE figures, ol course,
' don't mean much.
The value of an American dol
lar depends entirely on how
much of Ihe necessities and Ihe
good things of life a dollar will
buy.
the value of a Russian ruble
i which in foreign exchange is
worth about $1.11) depends en
tirely on how much of the good
ing.
AND . . .
-v It's VERY
interesting to
learn that Mr. Kroosh is aware
that there are OKOWINC, PE-
MANOS KOH MORE CONSL'M-
Elt HOOPS among Ihe Russian
people and thai it might be cll
lo so handle the Russian com-
omy lhat il will he POSSIBLE
for the common, ordinary Rus
sian people to get more of the
consumer goods thai make life
mine pleasant
That could be highly signifi
last January when he vetoed
Bntish membership in t h e
Common Market.
And a still greater irony for
l iseiore maKing nor Din to en-
'PI " common niarisei, oni-
nm iinu lusieieu a group caueo.
the European Free Trade As I
sociation ( Er- 1 A). Its mem-
bership included Britain. Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, Portu
gal, Switzerland and Austria.
It had been expected that,
with British entry into the
Christmas Season
8ossoms in Salem
SALEM (UP!) -The Christ
mas season blossomed in Sa
lem Tuesday.
A 30-foot decorated tree was
erected in the Capitol Rotunda,
a nativity scene was in place
in the Capitol Mall, greenery
decorated the front of the state
house, and offices inside sprout
ed seasonal decorations.
Espionage Has
Its Fringe Benefits
By Arthur Hoppe
Ah, espionage! Ah, lo be a
spy! What an exotic, dramatic,
heart - thrilling way of life, di
vorced forever from the hum
drum common herd. And I see
where our spies are demanding
an improved pension program.
With earlier retirement, higher
annuities and increased sever
ance pay. Which is the way it
goes these days.
The Central Intelligence Agen
cy, which is in charge of our
spies, has been busily engaged
I ob b y i n g the necessary bill
through Congress. And I'm for
it. Although CIA officials are
very secretive as to why we
n,ed higher fringe benefits for
our spies, I assume we vc been
having a recruitment problem.
And we've got to meet the com
petition. SCENE: A secret basement
room off the Champs Elysces in
a secret foreign country. The
CIA Deputy Personnel Manager,
Mr. DC-8, who lookes like Peter
Lorre, is s.ited at a secret
green baize table. There is a
secret knock on Ihe secret door
and Miss Malta Houri, who
looks like that slender vampire
lady in the Charles Addams
cartoons, enters.
DC-8 (whispering): Ahh, you
have come.
MISS HOURI (whispering):
Yess,
DC-8: I need not tell you how
important this is to us. Tran
sylvania, the unnamed country
f r which you work, has literally
scores of secret secrets. Em
ploying you as a double-double
agent would be a masterly
stroke. With your help, we might
even be able to capiure the in
famous Dr. Nu and squelch
SQUNCH forever. Tell me, will
you come over to our side?
MISS HOURI: Well, your of
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(c) Field Enterprise. Inc.
THE MEANING OF WORDS
Every writer who is in command of his craft knows that them
are very few real synonyms in the language. Words that seem
lo be synonymous usually have fine discriminations and shadings
of meaning and it is in the skilled use of such shadings that
a writer makes his best effect.
But the question of synonyms is much more than a matter o(
literary style: it also has a great deal to do with the substation
of what is written. The greatest stumbling-block lo verbal com
munication is in Ihe field of "definition" a word that means ono
thing to the writer may mean different things In different readers.
Large abstract words are the trickiest of all; and the common
esl of these words are the hardest to pin down love, justice, free
(iom, and so on. Most quarrels about these concepts are really
quarrels about the meanings of the words themselves.
w
One of Ihe best ways lo avoid, or at least In diminish, such
areas of confusion and disagreement is to consciously Iry at
all limes lo use key words lhat have no synonyms and c an be
understood in only one way. I'nfortnnalely. most such word"
are trivial onrs: Ihe important suhjrrls are dealt wilh in
wonts lhat are slippery and niany-laceled.
If. for instance, I say thai I have a "hankering" fur cheese,
Ihere is no mistaking what I mean. A "hankering" is nnl a
yearning or a deep longing or a burning desire; it has a small
hut definite range of meaning and It has no exact synonym.
.No other word would do as well in its place.
But when I speak of "faith" in God or some doctrine, then
I am immediately plunged into verbal chaos. How does
"faiih" differ from "belief"? And both of them from "con
viction"? When we say, in common speech, that we "believe"
something, we could usually just as accurately say "think"
or "assume" or "judge" or "guess" or "opine" or "estimate."
or any oilier of a handful of other verbs of approximate meaning.
In his recent book. "Belief and
nent German theological scholar,
in simply discriminating between "belief and all the other worili
lhat pass for it. He tries to attain the most rigorous and precise
definition of Ihe word, so lhat it stands (without a synonym) for
a specific altitude of mind
This is hard work, and tedious, but without it, no argument
ran be -oined. much less any agreement reached indeed, wo
would not even know what we are disagreeing about.
Semantic clarity is not the solution to any basic ronltnversy;
hut it must be the starling point, for wp can never reach Ihe sams
answers if we are, unknowingly, asking efferent qucslion..
Common Market, this Grouping
I nnnM I l
! would die and its members fol-
low Britain into the Common
j Market either as full or asso-
i cialed members.
hcrs could bp px.DW,eri , make
a headlong rush for EFTA.
Excluded would be tha
troublesome De Gaulle.
EFTA has the same tariff re
duction goals as the Common
Market, but with no political
implications and with no al
tempt to set up common tariff
barriers against non-members.
Under the Common Market,
Western Europe has soared to
unprecedented heights of pros
perity. Internal tariffs among
ihe six have been reduced 40
per cent and internal trade has
jumped 100 per cent. Gross na-
tional
product has increased
nearly ?5 per cent.
France has benefitted as
much as the others and has as
much to lose. It may he that
De Gaulle has bitten off moia
than he can chew.
fer of a GS-lfi rating with a pa
scale of $17,398 and four weeks
paid vacation is all right. But
what about your retirement
plan? A girl has to look ahead,
you know.
DC-8: If our new bill passes,
you'll be able to retire after 20
years of spying at 40 per cent
full pay, I'm proud to sav.
MISS HOURI: Promises,
promises. Besides, the unnamed
country of Mauritania is now
offering 52 per cent annuities
after only 17 years.
DC-8: True, but you're over
looking our Comprehensiva
Group Welfare Program. Here,
this brochure will explain il.
See? You will receive a $2,0o0
triple - indemnity life insurance
poiicy with convertible features;
16 sick days a year; and a pre
paid medical plan with full ma
ternity benefits, an item which
should not be ignored by onn
in the type of work you do, if 1
mav say so.
MISS HOURI: Yes, Tran
sylvania does offer only 50 per
cent maternity benefits. And I
like your sick leave features.
You see, I'm allergic to micro
film and every time I swallo-v
some, I'm under the weatb-r
for a week. All right, I'll sis".
DC-8: Grand! And now 'f
you'll jusl fill out these 37 em
ployment forms, we'll begin
processing them immediately.
And you should hear from us in
oh, about two months. And
from then on, Miss Houri, you
can look forward lo a stable,
secure future in espionage.
Well, as I say, Dial's Ihe way
It goes these days. Each man
has to make the choice be.
tween dull, old security and ex
citing, dashing adventure. And
all thai bothers me is that morn
; d more we're all making tha
same choice.
Faith," Josef Pieper. the Ptni-
spends the first several chapter?
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