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i PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. OCTOBER 15. 193B ntANK JENKINS Bdltor Manaflrn Alitor MAX WADCHOPg CUT Editor Sntrcd u second cluo matter al Um poal olflc at Klamatb Fall. Ore., on August 30, 1906, under act or Oorarreu, March t, 1I7S ekvicmi associated press united press audit bureau op circulations t Serving Southern Oregon And Northern Ctlifornia SUBSCRIPTION RATES . CARRIER 1 MONTH f l.M I MONTHS t t.OO I YEAR 11( 00 . I l.M $ 7.(0 112.00 I MONTH . MONTHS 1 YEAR Oil Wwk Hv BILL JENKINS This week has been designated years or so before our era began. aa vii rmsi " 7 were men like ourselves, equaii) nation. There arc " many o ' , , , equally ingenious, these so-called weeks during the, J .. carimu Bu, thev year that Ihey tend to become confusing. But this one seems to have some point in view of the tact that the Industry as a wnoie i What we must not forget Drone I That Theodore Roosevelt was i United States have enough infor- as we are to do so that these I the only President who ever of-rmation on the H-bomb to form an lathers of ours of a thousand I ficially loaned his name to a toy intelligent opinion on whether taking a week to pay tribute to the thousands and thousands ol service station operators across the nation. And that is a sentiment, with which I can go along whole heartedly. It would be a pretty tough world to live in if it weren't for the friendly and courteous fel low at your favorite station. 1 sup pose that most of us are prone to take them for granted, but they certainly perform a multitude of services without which our daily lives would be greatly compli cated. If everyone else Is as stupid about the mechanical end of an automobile as I am, I'm sure they will join me In a wholehearted thankyou to the station operator who sees to it that my car is1 properly lubricated, kept filled with the correct grade of oil and checks mileage, tires and gas levels periodically when I drop the car in at his parking lot. Without .that service I'm quite sure I'd be afoot in a matter ol days. There is another side to this service station business to be con sidered too, I think. They not only offer service to the driving public In the form of selling them the necessary gas, oil and accessories, but they are the com munities' first ambassadors of good will where tourists and visi tors are concerned. Quite frequent ly, in fact, the service station op erator Is the only local contact a visiting tourist may have. From him he learns the neces sary directions, but he also car ries away witn mm an impression of the town as formed in his mind bv his contact With that operator. 1 think that I can safely say that on the average these operators are not only helpful and courteous but do a splendid Job of public re lations for their community. . . I, for one, am quite happy to join in the oil Industry at large in congratulating the operators on the fine job that they re doing. I thing they've earned a good deal of praise. Last week I noticed a news item to the effect that Dick Neu bercer. Oregon's junior senator. has been named a director of the National Humane Society. 1 won der If this is because ol his kind ness to squirrels and his determin ation to see to It that their Wash ington, D.C. homes are kept up to the properly plushy standard. Down here at the tall end of this piece I might offer one small piece of advice. As in all election years, the letters-to-thc-editor mail increases in volume. It is a pretty commonly mistaken idea that if a person writes a letter to a news paper, signs his correct name and address to 11, he can then go ahead and moke all the libelous statements that he wishes without involving the newspaper. ' This is not true. If a newspaper publishes a libelous letter to the editor, they are sued right along with the writer of that letter. It's something to keep In mind when you foel that irresistible urge to tell someone off. It's also why so many letters that are sent in arc not published. The newspapers are protecting not only themselves but the writer. By K1CN McLKOl) The fundamental source for all human ideas especially of the na ture of things and what we should do about it all rests upon the opinions of anrient worthies, dead these thousand and two thousand and three thousand years. Their opinions in turn rest not a little on the kind of country over which wandered long departed flocks, and the soil of ancient river-hot did not. nor the most part, have books to read, nor most of our wavs of killing time: and they did not have any sort of artificial light that gave them much chance at either work or play alter dusK. Therefore one guesses to avoid being bored, they did on the whole more thinking than we do now; and they thought much about the stars and the rocks. The Babvlonians went In espe cially for astronomy, for they had a dry climate, a free horizon, and a clear sky. They gave us much of our magic and most of our as trology, the 360 degrees of the circle and the 60 minutes of the hour, the signs of the zodiac, our week of seven days (after the Feven planets) which we, how ever, call mostly by their Roman names. But the Babylonians did not geologize. "Syria of the Rivers, the Hebrew called it. The country is a great flood plain or the Tigris tluohrates rivers, a flat country, a quarter-thousand miles wide, where the river silt has buried far out of sight and mind all the hard und interesting rocks. There is no getting up geology out ol I mud f at that takes mountains. To be sure, there are high moun tains upstream from Babylon Ar arat where the Ark stranded, and the "Mountain of the North" be hind which the sun hid himself by night and on whose top was one of the various locations ot the bar don of Kden. However, the Baby lonians were a race of Babbitts. who dwelt in cities and did busi ness, oppressed weaker peoples und cultivated the more seden tary sciences with some measure of brilliance. They did not go to and tro in the earth, sailing and exploring and climbing mountains. Therefore, the Babylonians had no geology. Therefore, likewise, the Hebrews hod no geology. The Hebrew not having a head for natural science borrowed all his science and most of it from the east. No Israelite seems to have noticed the strati- lied rocks of the mountains about Jerusalem. The Old Testament abounds in astronomical lore but has no hint of any earth-science. There is no geology in the Old Testament for the same reason, that Nineveh was buildcd of brick instead of marble. Thus the earth beneath man's feet shapes the course of thoughts and actions. Compare Nineveh with Athens, each great city grew up on the abundance of nature where life was easy lo live. Picture, therefore. Israel of the ICxile, seated by the waters of Babylon, hanging its harps upon the willows, wailing for a lost Jeru salem; but when it had a chance to go home, promptly, for the most part, lorgetting Zion and staying in comfort where it was, The remnant that did return, rig idly selected for religion, brought back for science only what was known in Babylon. It had its vision of the changeless stars that circle the sky without haste and without rest, and an Ancient of Davs who created the stars in the beginning, who also docs not change. That is what men of genius In the field of religion learn in a flat country with a clear sky, where nothing alters and nothing is especially varied or interesting. So the Jews brought back from Babylon the beginnings of three leading reli gions of the world to come, colored with the hue of the desert. the "Teddy Bear," of which 150 million have been sold. That tuberculosis, far from be ing conquered, still kills more people than all other infectious diseases combined. That to determine the average height of a child between 4 and 12, doctors often use this formula: multiply the age by 2"i and add 30. Thus a 10-year-old, if average, will be SS inches tall. A child of 12 averages 60 inches S feet. That (now don't tell me you knew this!) fish are born as naked as Jaybirds. They don't de velop scales until after birth. That Canada geese don't fly In their familiar V-shape formation to ape the Air Force but to cut down wind resistance, iney aver age 50 miles an hour on nonstop flights of hundreds of miles. That among the few things a nickel will buy is a trip from Eurone to Asia. But first you have to get to Istanbul, Turkey, where a brief ferry ride across tne bos- phous (then you're in Asia) costs on v five cents. That Artemus Ward, Humorist of an earlier American genera lion, summed up the present day attitude pretty well when he ob served. "Let us all be happy and live within our means even if we have to borrow the money to do it with." Slarkets Ki(ali'ii(r By HAL BOYLE NKW YOHK i Odd facts a columnist might never know if he didn't read his mail (or eaves drop I : I hat Lord Kitchener, one of Ki uuin s greatest soldiers, had a hlelong fear of cats. I hat the average baby is 20 inches long at berth . . , but if the toms wncro men lirsl planted -stork short-changed you there crops. In particular our theological, isn't much you can do about it. and our scienlilic ideas, come That your child's fingernails largely enner om oi ancient tireecc: grow taster than vour own. or ancient Israel. Greece and Is-1 That in this envious world not rael. in turn, lean on Kgypt and I out of loo persons can name a Buh.vlonia. What, Iherelore, the I word lo describe the feeling of east end of the Mediterranean 'Pleasure you get out of another thought during the last thousand person s happiness. (Actually. ears of pre-Christian time, colors there are two such words Con deeply what wc think and do today, j felicity and Macarism but neith Thc thoughts ol lireece and ls-1 fr is lifted in my collegiate die- raei ana cgypi and Uaoylun arej'ionary.i strongly colored by what the peo- That anyone who writes a sui pio saw. iheicloro the fact thai cule note in which he tells how Lgypt and Babylon are dry cutui tries on a flood-plain, and Greece and Israel with rugged slope he wants his property divided is more likely to really kill himself than one who pens a farewell note along with other characteristics of which mnkes no mention ol w hat By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (AV-American busi nessmen today are . watching a new attempt to reshuffle world markets. They've felt the rise of Japanese and German competi tion and sighted the threat of Rus sian inroads. Now the British suddenly have stopped dragging their feet on the long dreamed of plan to set up a Western European economic union. Its aim: to do battle in the market place as a "third force" between the economic and military giants, the United States and Russia. Some sceptics, doubting that long-embattled Lurope can never get together on any unity plan, see the sudden upsurge of British interest in setting up a Pan-Euro pean bloc as due to rising anti- Americanism and to the smart of hurt pride over the Suez Canal stalemate. Beyond these emotional motives however, lie economic ones. The proposed European union offers a large and tempting market to Eng lish goods, protected by a com mon tariff barrier against Amer ican competition. Washington is aware of this and is asking the meeting in Geneva of G ATT the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to see that the proposed customs union of six continental nations, with which Britain could be joined through a free trade area, doesn't hurt seriously the American export markets In Europe. By becoming one big happy family, so the argument goes, the Western Europeans may all grow fat. Separately, they'll be crushed one by one first economically and then militarily between the United States and RUSSIA. The plan the British are talking about works like this: West Ger many. Franc, Belgium, Holland, Italy and Luxembourg would torm a customs union without tariff bar riers among tnemseives. uooas would move as freely across the borders as they do. say, between Ohio and Indiana. But there would be one tariff barrier in common against the goods of all other na tions. The customs union would then b joined in a free trade area by England and perhaps by the Scandinavian countries and in time even Spain. England would exclude from the compact the agricultural products of the British Commonwealth Otherwise all products would move freely within the free trade area Immediate stumbling blocks to the plan, as seen here, are: 1. The too-high price level in France and the wage inflation in England which might make French and British manufacturers fear the surging industrial comeback in Western Germany; 2. Opposition the tests should be ended with or without prior Russian agreement to do the same. That handful is composed of nuclear scientists, a few military leaders, and key civilians in the Eisenhower administration. President Eisenhower, after saying several times the tests must be continued for national defense reasons, reached a point last week where he said he will not discuss it any more. But he has never told the public the full story. He can't, he said, for reasons of national security: too much secret information is involved. Thus shut out from a full knowl edge of the problem, the voters cannot reach an informed opinion on the Tightness or wrongness of Eisenhower or Stevenson. The most they' can do is choose up sides for political or emotional reasons. In this argument Eisenhower. by invoking secrecy, has in ef fect asked the public to trust him when he says he's right and Stev enson is wrong. Ten days ago, before promising to say no more on the bomb tests. Eisenhower issued an explanatory statement from the White House. In it he emphasized he was not talking when he said the tests must go on as a political can didate but as president and there fore as the one most responsible for national safety. He did it in this one sentence after saying government leaders make their decisions on the bomb after much thought on what - is necessary for national defense: This specific matter (the H- bomb) is manifestly not a subject for detailed public discussion for obvious security reasons." With that he pulled down the curtain on full public knowledge and asked the voters to believe that he was in a better position than Stevenson to know what is needed. They'll Do It Every Time Bv Timmy Hatlo j j j DOC DRILLER LETS MtS P4TIENTS WOtV TU4T TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE Billy Pierce of the Chicago White Sox was the first pitcher in either leacue to win 15 games during 1956. . Debate By EDWIN P. JORDAN. M.D. whether there Is a true short age of physicians in North Ameri ca, or merely an imperteci dis tribution, is a subject for heated debate. Whatever the answer, It Is sure thing that the proportion of physicians to patients is higher here than in the rest of the world Nevertheless, some communi ties, particularly small towns and rural areas, have difficulty in attracting the physicians they want and keeping them there. Several organizations and in dividuals, including the outstand ing Virginia Council on Health and Medical Care, are working on this problem, Why some communities have trouble getting a physician has been brought out by attempts to solve the question. As is so often true, there are two sides to the story. First, the members of a com munity which needs a physician should ask themselves whether theirs is a good place for a doc tor to live and raise his family What can it do to attract and keep the kind of doctor it wants? How does this stack up? Can the physician and his family find a house in which to live comfortab ly and at reasonable cost? Is the office up to the standards of mod ern-day practice? Are the schools satisfactory for the children? If they are not, how can they be good enough for the children already there Can a new doctor earn enough trom the community to live on' Do the patients in the area pay their medical bills reasonably promptly? The physician is ex pected to pay his to the grocer, the plumber and the electrician with out too long delay. Do the residents of the commun ity realize that the doctor must have some time off for sludy and vacation? Are the members of community reasonably thoughtful about house calls and night calls when a daytime visit to the office would do just as well? Last, but not least, the question u Vic "'""-" "'?"" "" oi unpleasant gossip about the phy by U.S., Japanese, and Soviet-bloc 5ician and nis (amiIv . 1 d governments if the custom union appears too isolationist. I'iizzle. By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON I One of the campaign puzzles is how much sometimes does, make it impos sible for a good man to stav. 1 suppose there is no member of a community other than a minister perhaps who is so susceptible to me evil euects ot gossip and I about whom everyone likes to gos i sip more. As 1 suppose everyone knows in medical knowledge t in!-.......!.. Att.-..t J: Ml k. ..... ,V"- " v.o.-.MIfc,. MlllllUll wci mm anyone who threatens sui- --- -------.. . n.v one pn.vsician io Keep up -.-I,,. .,i.,i , i i...... (.m i. ,.,.,ki. i ii ki ... ...v. seems io inina ne s louna a -iik varvthins Th,. k. ..., tant notions that men now hold, say Ihey are afraid thev will com- ma)or "mpiBnj issue here. He an increase in specialiralion and The source region out of which!"") suicide aeluallv do. arranged to talk """ pooling of medical knowledce in our present-day civilization wasl That many women fear deelop- loniR,lJ' m nationwide television tn. carc o( ,h, piltlt,n,, For thS drawn came from that long-civil ling ccrvicai cancer during preg-"TTS . , . ; reason, some well-trained men ired Mediterranean area reaching nancy, but only 1 in 7.000 does .. ,',.rJ nterested him-hesitate lo go to communities from the Pillars of Hercules east- and the rate is even lower among ""' "n,t ,5n 1 ,inown ' n'i which need them if thev mav be ward to Mesopotamia and the Per- women under 30 many voters are interested. Stev- Isolated from their medical col- both-affect profoundly the course, he'd like done with his posses- " "n, AdUi Stevenson is J 'UPM of European thinking through sions. 'The second guy reallv has- J:2,ZZ vance ii .more than two millennium, amljnt made up his mind to let go.) "I"!'"? 1 k'' Pl? ,pMchM " made it determine, much more than sian Gulf, southward to the limits! That among the 2.V) new vari- of Upper Egypt, and northward iclies of fruit developed by Luther as far Into the Alps and beyond tiuriiauk, the plant wizard, them as our fathers, after the spirit, had enterprise or curiosity to go. That region is for us the ancient world. What there is in it, our forebears saw. What they saw. Ihey thought about. What Ihey thought, they passed along to lis. .lust mat. in large measure, what we think now. were a white blackberry and plum that tasted like a pear. ya r i well, the unlt i I i at StclX h4l.f-movjri Mustek j&l vifwiyvFc! in 1 &MmA i il1tilTiiidi) THE 4PPOINTE0 lo" WFTONG7 DOCTOR- 7,?? I .Wis every4 i$M t&T SrfZfT ,. BOW ELSE'S- wiUTSTVurrPH sneezed out mwtbs J, I I rtkMroUTTLE h-A "WE C4R WINDOW ( BETWEEN -jfc&i I j lI Hard Beds Seen On Russian Tour. NEW YORK W-"Russia is not sleeDing properly.", says a mat tress company executive just DacK from the Soviet Union. John W. Hubbell said on his re turn that a thin, cotton-filled mat tress used on many Russians beds is at fault. He said he paid 170 rubles about $42.50 for one of the Rus sian mattresses. "If this were put on a special sale here in a department store f o r $5," Hubbell said, ' "they wouldn't sell any." THE finest way to find buyers for whatever you have to sell, is to let Want Ads find them for you. Dial TU 4-8111 and let a Want Ad writer take it from there. . Constructive in Ideas Experienced in Financial Matters hid Adv. Oirandtt far Traalurar CoMmlHM. Chariot Sproflir. Chairman, Sato. Otfio. enson is said to be convinced, on leagues. the basis of crowd reaction, that! The phvsician who settles in a' (he subject is one that voters are j community which adly needs vitally concerned about. ,him also has heavy responsibilities' If -it has little voter Interest, 'and duties. He must be on rail fnr Tliat .100.000 naturalized Ameri-lthen Stevenson is using up a lot all kinds of emergencies and r. . cans will be able for the first '' valuable campaign time that! not regulate his hours on a 9 s lime lo vole for President Nov. . could be devoted to issues which schedule. 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